The Abyss Of Drug Addiction Poem Rhyme Scheme

Poet's note: NOTE: 'The Rush' is mostly felt when heroin or any of it's derivatives (opioids) is administered intravenously (injected). The Abyss Of Drug Addiction is a poignant story depicting the sad existence of many drug addicts. Poetic in tone, the verse uncovers and illuminates the mental processes of the unable to function drug users, who suffer from from chronic substance use disorder. The paramount aim of the work is to shed some light on the sinister shadow of drug addiction: To unveil to all and sundry especially teenagers and the youths, the hazards of drug abuse and the vicious downward spiral that can be caused by it. Just as the euphoric experiences of all kinds of hard drugs differ significantly, so are the withdrawal symptoms. Despite their seeming surface unrelatedness, whatever the case may be, the creation of an illegal and dangerous dependency in users is a common denominator.

Dike Chinedu

The Abyss Of Drug Addiction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In an errant venture in curiosity	A
lured from savvy of cooler judgment	B
he oversteps the bounds of reality	A
into a state of altered awareness	C
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Overwhelmed by a rapid onset of	D
a buzzing sensation The Rush	E
emanating from deep inside him	F
surging along the veins streaming	G
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euphoria thru cells of his entire body	A
inside the body with warm pleasure	H
waves flushing over the tingling skin	I
soughing off all unpleasant feelings	J
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Mouth numbed limbs heavy eyeballs	K
rolling back from absolute bliss	L
he savours the calm explosions of	D
the pulsating bubbles in his head	M
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A magical moment of sheer orgasmic	G
rapture that ends in a dazed stupor	H
ushering him into 'wellbeing'	G
in a cozy blanket of content	N
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He falls in love with the narcotic	G
And begins to relish its sweet fruition	O
in a seemly pattern of use put in	I
the shade by his best interests	P
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A stake in normalcy that in time gives	Q
way to his nightly soaring and drifting	G
in an illusionary paradise of forgetting	G
where nothing hurts anymore	R
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In a bit by bit build up of tolerance to	S
the opiate he grows quite a craving	G
for it needing higher doses time and	T
again to sustain the desired effect	U
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Seemingly oblivious to its lethal effect	U
on the pleasure centre of his brain	V
that is being hijacked and taken captive	W
by the illicit psychoactive substance	X
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A hostage position that interferes	Y
with the interior reality of his mind	Z
All at once he wants to 'use'	Y
He begins to look forward to using	G
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At times he'd skip work chasing the dragon	O
pursuing the out of reach elation levels	Y
of his initial high in a vicious cycle of	D
ebbs and flows of mediocre and ecstasy	Y
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Always he'd end up with a crash below	A2
baseline barely able to cater for his	Y
basic needs The habit no longer	H
is the fun that it was intended to be	Y
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The potent drug appears to offer reliefs	Y
not justified by external realities	Y
the more he indulges the more	R
its comfort zone seems to be desired	B2
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Disoriented in the rigours of his vice	Y
he strays into the abyss of drug addiction	O
a dark weary place where priority disorder	H
is dictated by events outside his control	C2
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It is this corrupted impulse control which	D2
causes his sick obsession with the opioid	B2
rendering him unfit to articulate rational	E2
thoughts a chronic brain disorder	H
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In this harmful shift away from reality	B2
utmost in his mind is the mood altering drug	G
ahead of his job his goals family love	D
friends hobbies personal hygiene	F2
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Oddly enough the foremost essentials of life	G2
like water food and sleep are not spared	B2
He could be ill he won't care	H2
No other thoughts can cohabit in his world	B2
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Emotionally invested in his fantasy world	B2
the depressant has kindled in him an	I2
inner turmoil setting off an overriding	G
feeling of emptiness that aches in his heart	B2
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The habit much harder to lose than it was	Y
to find his relentless attempts to regain	V
sobriety are negated by anxiety and sickly	B2
'comedowns' that intensify with severity	B2
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These horrifying withdrawal symptoms	Y
are a result of the stimulant's induced	B2
changes in the chemistry of his brain's	Y
system of reward and punishment	B2
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They're the karmic outcomes initiated by	J2
an upswing in his body's tolerance to the	K2
opiate galling side effects that rise and	B2
fall subject to drug levels in the system	L2
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A habit he had maintained at the outset	B2
due to the untainted glee it offered has	Y
turned against him very often coercing	G
him into using for the avoidance of pain	V
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The mind blower as dear and painful to	B2
him as an imbecilic child is to its mother	H
he continues on the foreboding route	B2
for which he has no power of deviation	O
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Despairing in the clutches of addiction	O
the drugs traumatize him they infuse	Y
poisons into his spine and he doesn't	B2
know whether he's coming or going	G
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Every day he's kept on promising himself	M2
'I'll stop using for good after this last time '	-
But that remains to be seen as the drug	G
goes on dulling his inner light day by day	B2
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In a downward spiral that stunned those	Y
acquainted with him he lost his job	N2
sold his car and was evicted from	L2
a home that had been stripped bare	H2
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The drug has evoked a negative ripple	E2
felt throughout all that he's part of	D
An awful realization that settles in with	O2
cold clarity eliciting a lurch of dismay	B2
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over his dire ignorance about the drug	G
that has led to the ugly entrapment	B2
In deep sorrowful thoughts consumed	B2
with self loathing he puts a curse upon	P2
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the day he first laid eyes on the hard drug	G
With the best resolve he could muster	H
driven by a remorse to kick the habit	B2
he strives to make his will like stone	Q2
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A facade that is soon razed by his urgent	B2
need for the opiate merely to feel 'normal'	E2
With a huge burden of guilt he wanders	Y
astray in the haze of his own misery	B2
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In his besotting passion for the narcotic	G
he'd go to any means to fuel the habit	B2
he'd cheat steal lie or betray even the	K2
ones who care about him to get his 'fix'	Y
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Like spreading of cancer in the body	B2
his affliction has metastasized way	B2
beyond him chipping away at the sense	Y
of wellbeing of everyone around him	F
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As frequent targets for theft his family	B2
have to always watch out for him	F
in a resentful relations where they've to	B2
sleep with their wallets under the pillows	Y
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Jewellery gadgets or any other easy	B2
to carry household valuables that is	Y
not safely locked away will go missing	G
For days at a time he too will vanish	R2
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In the many months gone since losing his	Y
source of livelihood he's been pushed	B2
into several rehabilitation facilities	Y
but so far has failed to clean up his act	B2
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He had overdosed thrice and had gone	S2
into rehab following discharges from	L2
hospital On the last occasion he was	Y
found passed out in the family bathtub	T2
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Timely arrival of the paramedics had saved	B2
his life That notwithstanding a desperate	B2
desire to use continues to feed the habit	B2
each time he's released from therapy	B2
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It's been most upsetting to the parents	Y
who have had to watch him visibly change	U2
before their eyes from a good healthy	B2
son who had always had his act together	H
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to as it is a thin patchy skinned recluse	Y
with a baffled demeanour who buries	Y
his head in low self esteem to conceal	E2
glassy bloodshot eyes from eyecontacts	Y
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Nothing points more to the helplessness	Y
of the family's plight than having to finally	B2
admit their seeming little or no influence	Y
over the ravages of the toxic substance	Y
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A harrowing experience for a household	B2
whose life savings along with compassion	O
for him have completely been exhausted	B2
with no more tears remaining to shed	B2
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The hurting family at the end of its tether	H
confronts him with an ultimatum	L2
To get his life in order or be kicked out	B2
Coldly they watch him leave	V2
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Among the ranks of homeless the junkie	B2
would wake up feeling sick and spend his	Y
day struggling to find ways to relieve the	K2
incessant strain of an insatiable craving	G
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On rare lucky nights he'd sleep on friends'	Y
couches otherwise the rough sleeper	H
crashes wherever there's shelter never	H
worrying about waking up the next day	B2
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A hellish existence on the streets that has	Y
provoked a string of run ins with the law	E2
Nabbed stealing on ill fated occasions	Y
he's pitilessly mobbed in inhumane ways	Y
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Broken sick starving the erstwhile ray of	D
hope who once had much going for him	F
presently he's a nervous wreck envisaging	G
life through the lens of opioid stupor	H
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Far beyond his ability to ask for help	W2
loved ones proceed to rescue him	F
Under the demeaning load of drug	G
dependence he staggers into a rehab	X2
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But the often slippery climb to recovery	B2
is never easy It's yet another chance to	B2
submit to a slow and delicate therapy on	P2
his brain whose structure and functions	Y
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are badly impaired due to a long term	Y2
use of the sedative In a daunting slog	G
he'll have to learn to care for a body	B2
that now ought to work differently	B2
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Desiring to put their lives back together	H
in the guiding light of structured help	W2
many drug addicts have been able to	B2
crawl their ways out of the dark abyss	Y
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Amongst them are 'walking corpses' who	B2
possessed by their 'enough is enough'	D
are able to find the inner fire needed to	B2
rekindle the cold embers of self image	Z2
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There's the fella cast adrift feeling wholly	B2
disconnected from self and the world	B2
He's mourning the split from a vital lifeline	A3
that'd kept him afloat in a chaotic reality	B2
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As a relief of all anxieties coupled with	O2
it's inducement of a state of illusory bliss	Y
the opiate has been the only companion	O
he could count on to cheer him up	B3
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That being so he's unable to justify why	J2
he ought to be sober when in such times	Y
he's beset by an awful illness attended	B2
by a serious depression that's of no help	W2
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In the face of the hell he's been going thru	B2
all the things that are dear to him plus	Y
the very essence of life on the line he's	Y
left persuaded that giving up the habit	B2
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will amount to a never ending gloom	C3
for the rest of his already sad existence	Y
Over and above all other reasons he just	B2
won't quit because he's unable to quit	B2
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But alas something's amiss Broken is	Y
that inner spirit wherein lay his will	E2
and the ability to choose Hence he	B2
has no recourse to a willpower whose	Y
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changeful potency is effectively enfeebled	B2
Yet as intense as the strain of the drug	G
may be it's nonetheless transient and	B2
would dissipate in the fullness of time	D3
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In default of any dreams of ever recovering	G
losses that are manifestly out of reach	E3
the drug with a firm grip on him serves	Y
as a buffer to keep his ugly reality at bay	B2
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But even so much as he desires to jump	F3
the rehab process he's bitterly pitted	B2
against the horrors of street life that loom	C3
upon him with such frightening aspect	B2
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Savagely trapped with no good choices	Y
he slips into a mortal dread of relapse	Y
In anguish withdrawals torment him daily	B2
and they won't let him be for a second	B2
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Utterly incapable of rising from the ashes	Y
to hold it all together no hope	G3
nothing to hope for everything out	B2
of focus mind spiraling out of control	E2
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In a fit of extreme anxiety the raging	G
desire propels him to the threshold	B2
of total lunacy And suddenly his	Y
need for a 'hit' becomes most vital as	Y
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Trembling all over with fear clutching	G
a pilfered smartphone forgetful of	D
future suffering the rehab jumper	H
hurries along the forbidden path	H3
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All alone with the merciless companion	O
nowhere to go and no one to turn to	B2
Wretchedly wretched in additive agony	B2
he fades away into nothingness	Y