Narco

Free verse ranting.

What have they taken, these men?

They and their inhuman pursuits

Let blood seep through the seams of humanity

Or shred its last remnants for want of 

Greed and Power.

Bullets and baseball bats strike,

Hard blunt instruments of coercion

While fear remains 

Their hardest weapon to dodge.

"Intimidate and Desecrate" is their motto.

They take what is given when

Needles fill the veins of the broken and

Papers rolled smoothly tight

Brand the heart with an "A"

Scarlet once, now blackened.

The euphoria of pills and powders

Trades itself for a hook

At the end of a chain,

Long and unbreakable

Which binds the soul and taunts it with the key.

What have they taken, these men?

The point of the needle,

The spark of the joint,

The rush of the powder and pill,

The end of the chain.

And they pull, pull, pull

Laughing the laugh of a

Power that tugs its victims

Into a pit with a link

Wrapped round its leg.

Author's Note

Any and all suggestions welcome.

Reviews

[Jack Wolfe]

Brand the heart with an "A" (someone's read the 'Scarlet Letters)

Drugs, sex, power, and life plagued by death and answered only in death. The hook ensnaring them digs deeper no matter the height they rise in the power hierarchy, and it indeed reach far beyond the mortal depths. Nicely Penned, James.

Only suggestion, 'Which snares the soul and taunts it with the key.' it read a bit long winded, perhaps rework it.