cold sweat

addiction is motivation
blinders on and unaware
that the world was bigger
than a pill bottle
close to empty, began
its lonely death rattle
only one more dose
better vomit first

Dark Here

It gets dark here
It gets cold  and lonely
Eternal and desperate
No garden to be cast from
Only images that flicker
Against darkened eyes
Sheltered by the night
Weak with fear and hope
Propped up by a fiction
Weathered by time
That crashes relentless
Into the promise of dawn.