Liquid Death

Into her arm goes the sweetest relief 

A beautiful disaster of liquid death doubled with a touch of nose candy 

She’s hitting the edge of death wishing for it to take her away 

But death won’t come to the willing 

Numb is the only emotion felt 

Not an emotion but a void in life while living 

Independence without experience took her places she shouldn’t have gone 

Introducing her to liquid death 

Against the wishes of her family and friends she stood defiantly 

Until one day they left her crying 

Neglected for so long 

Wasting away in a grimy shack 

With the man who took her life through Hell 

Breaking her face on the nasty sheetrock walls 

The slums are filled with the screaming agony of suffering 

Echoing down the alleyways like an escaping soul 

A bleak existence compared to what once was 

A beauty queen so long ago 

With dangerous curves and southern charm 

Degraded to a hood rat drug fiend 

Curves lost with time 

She remembers between cycles of a drunken stupor 

What once was and what could have been 

She remembers the good times and the bad 

But nothing compares to the pain that’s felt in her current reality 

She must make an escape but he entices her with her weakness for Liquid death 

But she must escape 

Escape from him 

Escape from this life 

Escape from liquid death 

Tony L. Jefferson, Jr. 2009