How to Save an Addict

The easy answer is

You don’t.

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An addict lives with a

God shaped hole

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Deep within their chest,

And you can’t fill it.

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You’ll try

And try and try

To be enough,

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But you’re not God.

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And as you fail,

Relapse,

The big “R” word,

Will hang over your heads

Like carrion crows

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As they circle

And dive,

You can bat them

Away

With frail hands.

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To the addict

You might even

Seem

To fit the mold,

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But you’re not God.

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So how do you

Save

An addict?

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The hard answer is

You don’t.

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You let them

Go.

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To find what

Fills the hole

Completely.

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