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Rated: 13+ · Other · Self Help · #1294823
woman's lament to her addict best friend
Blue-Eyed Boy

We all know the story –
you know, the needle and the damage done.
It’s not worth writing about.
But you,
you are so much more
than an old rock song.

When I see the single drop
of your blood in the syringe,
right before you plunge
into something I will never understand;
when I see your eyes
half into the nod and I know
you won’t be coming out tonight;
that’s more
than some cautionary tale.

You, you were my first
blue-eyed boy.
You were always there,
with your ever-present shoulder and hand –
there for the cops and the car wrecks,
the casts, the surgeries,
my nineteen nervous breakdowns.

You were my rock, and now
I don’t know how to be
yours.  I still trust you
with my life
but not with twenty dollars.
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