DRUGS Poem: Crack Never Loved You Back, by Ezra Godson

You stole from me
The love I gave freely
To walk the streets
And sell your body
For money
To get high,

But Crack never paid you back

You got so high
Puffing on glass pipes

That you disappeared
And reappeared
At random
Times
But crack never wondered where you at.

I never knew why crack made you act like that
Throwing your life away,
No job, equal pay,
Cursed like an urban nomad
Lost in a desert of shame
Yet crack never had your back.

Our tears and pleas
Meant nothing
As you changed
From a loving mother
To an object of pain

We cried for you
Prayed for you
Paid rehab for you

But you never changed
In fact, you relapsed
Again and again
Needless to say

Crack never kept you on track.

So I wrote this poem
To remember the saying
Through all your days
As an addict
I’ll tell you the same
Love wasn’t enough
In fact, it was in vain
But one thing remains—

Crack never loved you back.