Over the years
I have seen
Faces with tears
Shouts
And screams
Eyes filled with nothing but sadness
Faces shadowed from all the madness
Words told from a lie
Some wanting to lay down and die
Drugs taken to shield the pain
Alcohol swallowed to numb the brain
Thoughts drift inside a head
Empty enough to be considered dead 
Objects sway as vision blurs
Things can't seem to get much worse
Hearing grows while smell fades
It's gone too far for medicine's aid
Actions become a game of chance
To them it's just a little dance
A dance with a gambler
The gambler a killer
A killer in many ways
A gambler who'll play for days
To dance all night
Means to play with death
So what will they do?
When it's their last breath....