Addictions

We all have things we are "addicted" to. Some people are addicted to drugs and alcohol;others are addicted to food and spending money on things they really don't need to survive. Each addiction has pros and cons in which one often overwhelms the other. Sill, they continue to thrive in our world. This single word has inspired this entry:

One minute we hold the key
To every choice ahead
From choosing to be free
Or staying up in bed
When choices seem real tough
a blindfold tends to hide
the path that's straight ahead
while we go to one side

Sometimes it's good
Sometimes it's bad
We never know until
We stop our stride
And look behind
To decide to go back or move ahead

The addict will walk blind as a bat
Continue to step on an unknown path
The stressed may find where they have gone
Is not where they would guessed they'd been so long
The choice is yours to go back or stay
You make your own choices but either way
It's your choice today

Each day it gets much harder
To ignore the warning signs
Your body starts to quiver
As you read each new line
Your mind begins to wonder
what you might have left behind
You look back and you wonder
If you could be bringing sunshine

Sometimes it's good
Sometimes it's bad
We never know until
We stop our stride
And look behind
To decide to go back or move ahead

The addict will walk blind as a bat
Continue to step on an unknown path
The stressed may find where they have gone
Is not where they would guessed they'd been so long
The choice is yours to go back or stay
You make your own choices but either way
It's your choice today