sacred drugs of society <br />changing with cultures <br />throughout cultures <br />throughout history <br /> <br />cave men were stoners <br />rocking in religious trances <br />sound light colour visions <br />check blown pigment hands <br /> <br />magic mushrooms <br />sacred in ancient Egypt <br />belladonna mandrake <br />hashish mescaline <br /> <br />opium cannibus <br />marijuana cocaine <br /> <br />alkaloids in ergot <br />ergotamine ergonovin <br />lysergic acid used <br />in the synthesis <br /> <br />of hallucinogen LSD <br /> <br />names of lost legendary <br />cults soul search dedicated <br />to religious trance producing <br />hallucinogenic vision effects <br /> <br /> <br />drugs are release endemic <br />to the human condition <br />a truly global phenomena <br />I take mine as coffee not tea <br /> <br />drugs keep the world going <br />Starbucks supply a selected fix <br />Elizabethan coffee house fad <br />reborn in new world origin <br />enables the world to steam on <br /> <br />medicated generics <br />allow less stable <br />less healthy minds bodies <br />to stay job course <br /> <br />until roll out <br />retirement time <br />or redundancy <br />nips worker in bud <br /> <br />morphine physician prescribed <br />self medicated pain killing <br />good spirits joy drug to die on <br /> <br />to embalm our newly deceased <br />a mixture of formaldehyde <br />methanol and ethanol <br />are solvents of proven choice <br /> <br />one thing is certain drugs <br />have accompanied humanity <br />through life through death <br />throughout all ages of man <br /> <br />now at this point I must confess <br />Christ is my drug of choice <br />freely chosen for eternal rest <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright © Terence George Craddock <br />http: //www.poemhunter.com/terence-george-craddock/<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/latest-drugs-on-the-street/
