Addicted to Her
What drug addiction can do to a romance
love made him bypass
the red flags
the drugs she's abusing
this life that she's choosing
instead of white flags
it's powder
thrown up in the air
she surrenders herself
in its hazy 'paradise'
and she doesn't
seem to care
who she's dragging
along for the ride
and maybe he thinks
he can fix her
because of his pride
but what he doesn't know
or what he pretends
to not see
is that his love for her
is making him blind
to what her life
is doing to him
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I was going through some old poems saved on my computer and I noticed a folder called "Based On..." where I found some poetry I wrote based on musicals and episodes. I will posting a few of these throughout the course of the week for all of you to enjoy.

This one is based on Roger Davis' and Mimi Marquez's relationship from the Broadway musical Rent. Roger is a presently struggling musician and ex-singer/guitarist who is an ex-junkie and has HIV, while Mimi is a drug addict and Latina stripper.
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Alexandria Stanwyck
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Comments (1)
I loved this. So well done. Moving and deep. Great work.