Addiction

By: Bella Argentino

Speaker: Someone who has had a family member suffer from this
Audience: People or families who have suffered from heroin addiction
Thoughts: Depressing, emotional
Situation: A family member went down the wrong path.

Needles in the black Jansport backpack

Addiction: zipped up in front of the drawer;
Needles in the black Jansport backpack,
(Air Quotes on “High” ) half of them empty, half full.

It’s fun at first, the “high” one receives; Sped off in the siblings’ car, to who knows
It’s fun at first, the constant rush, where.
overfilling one’s senses. Sped off in the siblings’ car, and snapped
the last straw.
Having something to lean back on
Having something like a best friend One departs from the home, the room
cleaned out, burnt spoon, and a piece of
The amount of money seems like nothing, metal under the bed.
The amount of money dissipates. One departs from the home, the room
cleaned out, a wedding ring, and empty
One craves the companion, searching job applications under the bed.
and scraping;
One craves the companion, thieving, (Deep Pause)
bribery, and dehumanizing.
Far away one went, alone and helpless,
All real connections start to realize, Far away one went, a family torn and
All real connections try to help. heartbroken.

Mom stays quiet to others, panics all
alone;
Mom stays quiet to the others, slips some
money for “food and bills”.
Rock bottom, no home, no money, no job;
Rock bottom, no family, no friends, no life.
Center after center, one tried and tried.
Center after center, clean and then not.

(Deep Breath)
Mother continues to send money
Mother continues to feed the monster Addiction;
that’s ripping everything apart. The one thing that doesn’t just affect the
users.
Brought inside to the home one once The one thing that destroys lives.
belonged to;
Brought inside to the one place that one
shouldn’t have been.

The family tried everything, a place to

stay, food to eat;
The family tried everything, driving one
everywhere one needed.

One by one they all fade away, none of

them getting through;
One by one they all fade away, except for
that one partner.

(Change tone: quiet and melancholy)

They are all that one needs, the joy they

bring is like no other;
They are all that one needs, not involved
with anyone else.

(Shrug Shoulders)