Another Starbucks Encounter

One never knows whom at Starbucks one might meet

Today a young beautiful woman an addiction trying so hard to defeat

Working on her program with two weeks under her belt

With a smile and eyes that would make any man’s heart melt

The long arm of the addictive gene is so hard to shake

So easy to listen to the siren call of it will be different this time mistake

If there is a God, the existence of which this poet firmly believes

A prayer that this young woman sobriety achieves

Too many of our youth are leaving this world way too soon

Overdosed after injecting heroin heated in a spoon

Or overdosing on chronic use of meth

Heart attacks, kidney failures, comas, shortness of breath

No wonder Trump wants to build a wall to stymie the drug cartels

Even though without 60 Reds in the Senate it may be a hard sell

But a fight worth fighting to curb the spread of deadly drugs

To somehow the flow of death into our nation plug

© November 18, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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