{"id":7001,"date":"2013-04-13T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2024-07-04T11:28:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:28:48","slug":"poem-written-by-crystal-meth-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7001","title":{"rendered":"Poem Written by Crystal Meth Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CrystalMethVictim.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Meth Victim\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CrystalMethVictim.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CrystalMethVictim-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I AM METH&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This was written by a young Indian girl who was in jail for drug<br \/>\ncharges, and was addicted to meth. She wrote this while in jail. As you will<br \/>\nsoon read, she fully grasped the horrors of the drug, as she tells in this<br \/>\nsimple, yet profound poem. She was released from jail, but, true to her<br \/>\nstory, the drug owned her. They found her dead not long after, with the<br \/>\nneedle still in her arm.)<br \/>\nPlease keep praying for our Children, Teens, Young adults. Understand,<br \/>\nthis thing is worse than any of us realize&#8230;<br \/>\nMy Name: &#8220;Is Meth&#8221;<br \/>\nI destroy homes, I tear families apart, take your children, and that&#8217;s just the start.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m more costly than diamonds, more precious than gold,<br \/>\nThe sorrow I bring is a sight to behold.<br \/>\nIf you need me, remember I&#8217;m easily found,<br \/>\nI live all around you &#8211; in schools and in town.<br \/>\nI live with the rich; I live with the poor,<br \/>\nI live down the street, and maybe next door.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m made in a lab, but not like you think,<br \/>\nI can be made under the kitchen sink.<br \/>\nIn your child&#8217;s closet, and even in the woods,<br \/>\nIf this scares you to death, well it certainly should.<br \/>\nI have many names, but there&#8217;s one you know best,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of me, my name is crystal meth.<br \/>\nMy power is awesome; try me you&#8217;ll see,<br \/>\nBut if you do, you may never break free.<br \/>\nJust try me once and I might let you go,<br \/>\nBut try me twice, and I&#8217;ll own your soul.<br \/>\nWhen I possess you, you&#8217;ll steal and you&#8217;ll lie,<br \/>\nYou do what you have to &#8212; just to get high.<br \/>\nThe crimes you&#8217;ll commit for my narcotic charms<br \/>\nWill be worth the pleasure you&#8217;ll feel in your arms,<br \/>\nyour lungs your nose.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll lie to your mother; you&#8217;ll steal from your dad,<br \/>\nWhen you see their tears, you should feel sad.<br \/>\nBut you&#8217;ll forget your morals and how you were raised,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be your conscience, I&#8217;ll teach you my ways.<br \/>\nI take kids from parents, and parents from kids,<br \/>\nI turn people from God, and separate friends.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take everything from you, your looks and your pride,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be with you always &#8212; right by your side.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll give up everything &#8211; your family, your home,<br \/>\nYour friends, your money, then you&#8217;ll be alone.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take and take, till you have nothing more to give,<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m finished with you, you&#8217;ll be lucky to live.<br \/>\nIf you try me be warned &#8211; this is no game,<br \/>\nIf given the chance, I&#8217;ll drive you insane.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll ravish your body, I&#8217;ll control your mind,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll own you completely, your soul will be mine.<br \/>\nThe nightmares I&#8217;ll give you while lying in bed,<br \/>\nThe voices you&#8217;ll hear, from inside your head.<br \/>\nThe sweats, the shakes, the visions you&#8217;ll see,<br \/>\nI want you to know, these are all gifts from me.<br \/>\nBut then it&#8217;s too late, and you&#8217;ll know in your heart,<br \/>\nThat you are mine, and we shall not part.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll regret that you tried me, they always do,<br \/>\nBut you came to me, not I to you.<br \/>\nYou knew this would happen, many times you were told,<br \/>\nBut you challenged my power, and chose to be bold.<br \/>\nYou could have said no, and just walked away,<br \/>\nIf you could live that day over, now what would you say?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be your master, you will be my slave,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll even go with you, when you go to your grave.<br \/>\nNow that you have met me, what will you do?<br \/>\nWill you try me or not? It&#8217;s all up to you.<br \/>\nI can bring you more misery than words can tell,<br \/>\nCome take my hand, let me lead you to hell.<br \/>\nIf you care enough, please forward this profound poem and<br \/>\nshare the deadly outcome of this drug that is killing our young people &amp; even our old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I AM METH&#8221; (This was written by a young Indian girl who was in jail for drug charges, and was addicted to meth. She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read, she fully grasped the horrors of the drug, as she tells in this simple, yet profound poem. She was released from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poem Written by Crystal Meth Victim&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53980,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions\/53980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}