Dear Addiction

By Zeb Edington

I’m writing this to you

Telling you we're through

I can’t take you anymore

Don’t know what I liked you for

All you did was wear me out

Now I know what you're all about

You came to me with promise and joy

Now look at all the things you destroy

Families, lives, bank accounts you see

You ruined it all with one little tease

Look at the way you make me feel

Then you take it all and want me to steal

Why can’t you just go and hide

Somewhere far away where I’ll never find

Everyone at home doesn’t understand

How you rip me apart, then lend me a hand

I keep coming back thinking inside

Maybe this time I’ll make you my bride

Then I sit and wonder why

Why do you really want me to die

Thousands and thousands come to you

Hoping and praying you’ll help them through

Then they fall for your lending hand

Only to realize you're nothing but a scam

You promised me heaven and sent me to hell

You ruined my life and then wished me well

Watch me now as I go on my way

I’m washing myself of all of your pain

So you and your power can just leave me be

I’m taking my life and setting it free

Analysis:

This poem is about someone breaking away from their addiction. The theme that an addiction can be very tempting at the time, but can lead to a lot of pain.

This poem is made up of five sestets, each with a rhyme scheme of AABBCC.

Poetic Devices:

Line 8-10: Metaphor - "Now look at all the things you destroy, Families, lives, bank accounts you see, You ruined it all with one little tease." The addiction didn't literally destroy these things, it means the person's life was negatively affected by the addiction.

Line 13: Metaphor - "Why can't you haut go and hide." The author doesn't literally want the addiction to hide,they just want the temptation to go away.

Line 16: Metaphor - "How you rip me apart, then lend me a hand." The addiction doesn't literally rip him apart or lend him a hand, it means it made his life hard, then looked like a good idea again.

Line 18: Metaphor - "Maybe this time I'll make you my bride," meaning maybe this time the person will find something good in the addiction so it won't cause them any more harm.

Line 23: Metaphor - "Then they fall for your lending hand" meaning people fall for the temptation of the addiction.

Line 25: Allusion - "You promised me heaven and sent me to hell."

Line 28: Metaphor - "I'm washing myself of all your pain" meaning the author is moving on from the addiction.

Line 30: Metahpor - "I'm taking my life and setting it free" meaning the writer is freeing himself from the addiction.