Addiction



FREE WRITE FRIDAY

http://magicinthebackyard.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/free-write-friday-addiction/

asks us to write about addiction.

Please forgive my light-hearted approach if this subject is no laughing matter to you!

ADDICTION

I had an addiction lurking for years and years and years;

But I didn't know it existed until now.

I saw other folk addicted but I never caught the bug;

My psyche simply didn't quite know how.

I tried to smoke a cigarette when I was just sixteen

But I spat it from my lips! That was enough!

So in all my many decades I've never ever smoked;

I've never ever had another puff.

A little later I tried alcohol, a white wine I recall;

I reeled back from the most unpleasant taste.

I'd never be a drunkard, that was very clear;

Though symptoms in my ancestors were traced.

I was never ever offered drugs, in any shape or form;

They weren't around in 1954.

I'm still completely innocent about Ecstasy and such;

I really can't imagine what it's for.

I hear that there are Sex-addicts; well I wasn't one of those!

It was just a pleasant pastime, now and again.

I can't imagine addicts, female ones I mean,

Who simply cannot get enough of men!

As for a gambling addiction; that also passed me by;

Just five dollars on the Melbourne Cup for me.

No, it must be admitted that I was squeaky-clean;

I was a nasty little prig, addiction-free.

Till

Blogging came and found me and I wallowed in its charms;

And I never will get free, that's my prediction.

It took me until eighty to discover that I'm weak.

I'm confessing to a cyberspace addiction!

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WHEEEE!

Once I needed training wheels,

But now I know just how it feels.

Whizzing round and round the track,

Whizzing there and coming back.

This shot was taken years ago

When I was rather young and slow.

Now you should see me riding past,

All grown-up and very fast!

Soon I'll ride way out of sight

Maybe at the speed of light!

Bye-bye Grandma! I can't stay!

Boys move on.

Grandmas just stay.

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