Leave me be, content to suckle <br />Contentedly imbibing my delusory elixir <br />The replete nourisher of my soul <br />With longing I taste its sweet nectar <br />Smug invader, coursing unabated <br />Intent on possessing me whole <br />Unawares, a devilish enchantress has cast her spell <br />My will and purpose are exacted as tribute <br /> <br />Enslaved, my heart and soul sorrowfully relent <br />This despotic master knows no compassion <br />Demands obedience, daily offerings to quell her wrath <br />I have foolishly unleashed the Three Furies <br />The Three Daughters of Mother Earth and Darkness <br /> <br />Their abode, deep in the underworld, where I too now abide <br />Regrets abound, groping, I blindly seek my way back <br />Back before hope and desire turned to torment and despair <br />Back before I bargained away my soul <br />Back before my weary existence was filled with sorrow and dread <br />Back before I foolishly entered Hades, the world of the dead<br /><br />Charles Hughes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/drug-addict-belated-remorse/
