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I Wanted the World

I wanted the world, and I found it,
I poked and I prodded with certain glee.

What I had found was youthful and free,
A boyish desire for wild
And wildernesses within me,
But the world was wicked and cheap
And myself so dumb and naïve
That I had found pills and gold drink.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpAugust 16, 2021August 16, 2021Posted inPoems about lifeTags:Drug abuse, free verse, poem, poetry, Poetry about life, recoveryLeave a comment on I Wanted the World

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