Where the Broken Go

His Addiction

His eyes stung with pain

As the tears streamed down his face

He had nothing left to gain

From his tragic fall from grace

All the empty years

And lessons left unlearned

Living with that fear

And every bridge he’d burned

That pain, it took his breath

As he invited the life of danger

Closer and closer to death

Every day the mirror, showed him a stranger

Toward the end it almost felt

He wouldn’t last another day

The cards that he’d been dealt

Made him long to fade away

One pill here, one drink there

He was drained before too long

No one really cared

No one told him it was wrong

It took almost dying, to make him see

Everything that he could lose

So he set his fears free

Looking at his son, it was easy to choose.