Speedy Affliction

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Addiction is an evil when it brings

You love.  The Greeks were right about that drug

Delivered by an arrow.  Its point stings

You with the chemical.  That Cupid thug

Injects you with an instant hooking dose

And you become dependent on its high.

Your heart becomes a bully, bellicose

With harming weapons.  Looking at a thigh

Or nippled chest will ruin any hope

For Christ’s salvation.  Love forbids the room

Of grace and faith because that lust is dope

Like heroin.  It needles you with doom.

  Like crack cocaine this kind of love invades

    Your soul.  The filth fills heart and then cascades.