three

manifest destiny

the confrontation,

the silent scream 

sends me reeling

i am the eye witness

to your complete breakdown

feeling like this is all

one big dream.

it isn't.

manifest destiny

i tell myself

to make it easier,

to make it to the car

to make it to the clinic

to believe that detoxing 

will kill the ills that

refuse to be truly

understood.

but the drugs make 

judgements of their own,

an axis of evil

where no territory is safe 

and every conversation is

an incendiary device.

i need to fight fire

with fire.