IF ONLY I

I was feeling so dry

That I was pushed to a try

Men-I’m addicted; should I cry

It filled my body substituted my blood: I am to die.

I was stressed, looking on whom to lean

It was right under my nose, in a small tin

I yearned for more, the taste of dry gin                                            

If only I could have pulled back and been keen

I wouldn’t have to be pulling out this stuck pin.

We were so close, the only friends I had

You passed to me that bit, just like a great lad

Now I realize nothing was good, all we did was bad

Now look, this life I live because of you it’s so hard

If I only knew it was not to make me glad.

I don’t know if to you I am a bug

Where were you to give me that hug?

If so I couldn’t have gone to that drug

I have no food, shelter, just in a rag

Feeding and living on them is not a brag

Fellows, join the campaign against drugs!

Stop-Speak out, so that the country doesn’t behind lag

My gripe is to put forever away the alcohol, bhang and shag.                 

It was just a small one, a little can

If I’d thought at first, I could have made a turn

But it controlled me so fast, never gave me a chance to run

Kerosene can not restore it, as now has my liver burn

Can you help me, be a recovering addict?

By putting drugs to a total ban!