Tiger By the Opioid Tail

Poor Tiger’s mug shot for a DUI makes him look like the poster child

Of the prescribed opioid epidemic creating havoc and running wild

With numerous surgeries on his back

We can only cringe when pain rears its head and attacks

For a Tiger now hobbled with pain a lesson to learn on a DUI offense

Asleep at the wheel from opioid pain killers is not in any state a DUI defense

Passed out in the car with no blood alcohol is not a get out of jail free pass

Thank God so close to home he killed or wounded no one as a complete jackass

Tiger you used to be a hero to all,  grab the mike

Take your dose but if you drive, the results you may not like

Become a spokesman for the dangers of these ever stronger killers of pain

Take them if you must, but from driving then refrain

Doctors are far too ready to prescribe drugs in the excess

To the pain no one can endure they will try to suppress

But opioids are a deadly addictive two edged sword

Not careful and the use will have soared

And Tiger will no longer be the man holding a tiger by the tail

But rather a Tiger held by his ass by an addiction that will his life and dreams derail.

© may 31, 2017, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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