Distortion

How does it feel to live a life that's distorted?

It's like everything is just smoke and mirrors

It can make you a tad nihilistic

Or is that just because of the chemicals?

Never mind the system of delivery

Liquid or vapor 

You feel like a prostitute

Each day someone new to please 

You forget that at 25 

The only person you need to please 

Is you

And so you reason with yourself 

And try to find a way out of this mess 

You miss your lover's caress 

The warmth of their mouth on yours

You miss home and all the smells you associated with it

A new hallucination gives you indigestion

As you let yet another nightmare come to life 

But this is not who you are 

Find yourself and fight 

For a nightmare is nothing but a bad dream

And sooner or later you wake up

Even from the harshest of dreams 

The Bilge Master