When we start to get used to things and then become dependent

It can be seen as an addiction, worn around the neck, a pendant

Which we've had so long it's become a real part of our personality

Worn proudly, as though it's stuck to us, giving us some quiet glee



There are other addictions, it can be said, such as those not good

For our bodies and minds, and those need to be seen as false wood

Which breaks apart and splinters when too much weight is applied

Many of those, we can live without, just by telling selves they're denied



But some of those things some folks tend to refer to as addictions

Are useful tools we can employ to keep our lives real, not fiction

Sorting out the ones which contribute to the betterment of our life

Is something we all can do, given perspective, without any strife



Once we have sorted thru and resolved to stick with only the positives

Then our lives take on a better hue, and we learn to love self complete

And then we realize what we saw as addictions are not really, at all

And we start to embrace ourselves, and separate thought from fool



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

11:15am Sat. June 13th, 1998