And you've become

Everything that I need

For my sanity

How can something so enticing

Have such awful side effects

All the itching and the scratching

From withdrawal keeps me

Out of check

I am fixated

On all of the things

We were together

But those are fragments

That are better off

Lost forever



I'm falling apart piece by piece

To shards of what you have made me

To set me free

If I cut the strings

That held me hostage

Would I fall and shatter

If that's what it takes

To breathe again then

Would it even matter

And just

How can something so enticing

Have such awful side effects

All the itching and the scratching

From withdrawal keeps me

Out of check

I am fixated

On all of the things

We were together

But those are fragments

That are better off

Lost forever