The addict and his drug

This poem is very close to my heart and is about my brother. I hope you guys will like it.

You went to him when you needed it the most,

He took you away when you were needed the most,

Now we are left here to pick up the pieces of our once whole family,

Yesterday I saw mom cry for the first time in 4 years, 

Because she knows no one cares,

As you stick the needle of life and pain in the body she created,

All we do is stand here and watch as you are fated,

To a life of addiction and pain, 

And I stand in the rain wondering where my brother went, 

Because all I know is that you are hell bent on this addiction, 

But then again all we can see is the affliction it causes you, 

In the dreams of our mother he told her,

"I took him away from you and you can never get him back" 

Because that is the pact of an addict and its drug,

I fear the only freedom that you want is the needle of life and pain, 

Because I dreamt of finding you in the rain with the needle in your arm and a note on your body saying freedom at last.

He warned us 

"I take, I kill, I hate,

I torment, but most of all I murder"

I am his new master named death,

This is my warning to you please pick life over pain in the rain before my hands wrap around your throat,

That is all he wrote,

Because no one knows the pact between an addict and his drug,

Unless it is too late

Because there is only one fate 

For an addict and his drug, 

Which is pain

But without the gain

Author's Note

What do you guys think of the poem?

Reviews

[KT-B]

This is well written and a sad story, once addicted nothing you can do/say will ever make any difference - it is only the addict that can make the decision to come off the drug - and even then a very difficult journey, I'm sure the support of a loving family would be immeasurable in those circumstances though - also pray, pray and pray some more :)

[SeiOriana Pedro]

Thank you so much. And everything you said was true. All we can really do is pray. Especially when the person does not want help from the family. But he is always in our prays.

[KT-B]

that's nice and let him know, even though he might not respond it will let him know you care enough to pray - so sad though :(