What Is Heroin

What Is Heroin

A Poem by AMMD


Heroin is a lifelong scar 
both on your chest 
and within it 
because your teenage daddy 
burned your infant skin 
while nodded out high 
and then left this life before 
you ever really got to know him. 

Heroin is the charred remains
of a shirt 
a bathroom floor 
a carpet 
a love 
a life 
a family 
and a marriage bed. 

Heroin is a drug that 
wanted you but 
couldn't quite sink 
its teeth in, and so it waits. 
Patiently. 
For the one thing 
most precious to you - your son. 
What can you do? 

That's heroin.

© 2022 AMMD


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Added on August 27, 2017
Last Updated on February 10, 2022

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A Poem by AMMD