{"sf1_id":772539,"sf2_id":"J1Oozp21","title":"Every Vice has a Price","author":"Arcaron","words":263,"posted_at":"2014-10-24T12:55:00.000Z","tags":["Death","Drugs","Poem","Poetry","life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/772539-every-vice-has-a-price","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1Oozp21","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e5/dd/e5ddf330-9910-449e-8e6a-2090fd0dcb3b","description":"","content":"Safe in my solace, walking around alone.\n\nAvoiding all others, it's better on my own.\n\nHiding behind a wall, showing my facade.\n\nBut deep down inside, all I feel is hate.\n\nLaughing with people, faking my part.\n\nIt's not easy living, with an empty heart.\n\nEvery day, with lying and deceit.\n\nSmile, laugh, have fun. Repeat.\n\nThe same fucking things, year after year.\n\nSocial interactions, fear causing tear.\n\nEveryone has a mask, faces for every situation.\n\nYou, me, your friends and every damn nation.\n\nActing like you're fine, hiding all the pain.\n\nBut people can't see, tears hidden by the rain.\n\nBottling it up, people have different ways to cope.\n\nPain, cocaine, alcohol. It's hard to keep hope.\n\nSome ways are worse, but none are healthy.\n\nSmoking, drinking, hiding and being stealthy.\n\nDrowning your sorrows, but nothing works.\n\nFor nobody knows, what inside of you lurks.\n\nDrinking every day, alcohol from the flask.\n\nBut nothing ever changes, just mask after mask.\n\nBut when your ways of coping, only makes it worse.\n\nHow does one escape, the evil circle of this curse?\u0026nbsp;\n\nTake some speed, smoke a lot of weed.\n\nCutting till you bleed, it's the distraction you need.\n\nHeart filled with greed, douse youself with mead.\n\nThe warnings marks you read, but you'll never be freed.\n\nStart selling drugs, to fuel your own vices.\n\nNothing is too expensive, set your own prices.\n\nConvincing people you're fine, drink some more wine.\n\nLooking for a sign while destroying your own spine.\n\nCorrupted, defiled and secretly longing for salvation.\n\nDisrupted, denied, can you resist the temptation?\n\n  \n  \n\n"}