Addiction

Images of things that once were...haunt the mind
Creeps down through the shoulders
Into the blood stream
Straight to the heart
no tune available to inject into the veins of longing
No book with sad endings to empathize
Gotta numb the pain
The craving
The addiction of remembering
Skin itches for the touch from that supply
Where is the fix
That cures the heart
Flows throw the blood streams
Up the shoulders
And into the mind that temporarily erases those images
Embraces
Words
Images of laughter
that now are deathly screams
Ring loudly
Reminding that there are no smiles here
Gotta numb the pain
The craving
The addiction of remembering
You