MY NAME IS COCAINE

My name is cocaine-call me coke for short.
I entered this country without a passport.

Ever since then I've made lots of scum rich.
Some have been murdered and found in a ditch.

I'm more valued than diamonds, more treasured than gold.
Use me just once and you too will be sold.

I'll make a school boy forger his books.
I'll make a beauty queen forget her looks.

I'll take a renowned speaker and make him a bore.
I'll take your mother and make her a whore.

I'll make a school teacher forget how to teach.
I'll make a preacher not want to preach.

I'll take all your rent money and you'll be evicted.
I'll murder your babies or they'll be born addicted.

I'll make you rob, steal and kill.
When your under my power, you have no will.

Remember, my friend my name is "Big C"
if you try me one time you may never be free.

I've destroyed actors, politicians and many a hero.
I've decreased bank accounts from millions to zero.

I make shooting and stabbing a common affair.
Once I take charge, you won't have a prayer.

Now that you know me, what will you do?
You'll have to decide, it's all up to you.

The day you agree to sit in my saddle.
The decision is one than no one can straddle.

Listen to me, and please listen well.
When you ride with cocaine you are headed for HELL.

Author Unknown

10 COMMANDMENTS OF CRACK

1. I am your only god and nothing shall come before your need for me. Neither food nor drink nor sexual pleasures that used to give you a thrill. Now I am your only though.

2. Nothing comes before me; neither self-respect, nor honor, nor love, for I am your god and I am your everything.

3. From now until I finally bust your heart, I am the only thing that rules your every being. I am what you live for, and for the want of me you will die.

4. Neither the threat of death nor a mother's love will keep your from having me.

5. Remember the thrill and pleasure of having me inside you and keep it holy, for none other can be so satisfying. I give you peace when the world seems to be closing in around. So cheat, steal, lie and if you need be, kill; but get me inside of you.

6. Gone is your need for physical things like food. Your health is nothing compared to my "high".

7. So what if you lose weight, it is nothing but excess baggage that you drag around from day to day, and just think, the less weight you have, the bigger the thrill.

8. I fake the place of mother, father, sister, brother, and all the other loved ones.

9. To you everyone is a potential means for getting "high". You will beg and borrow until you can no longer borrow and then you will steal. Oh yes, you will steal, for gone is your sense of morality, gone is your sense of justice. Everything belongs to me and I am your everything. I am your only desire and you only live for me.

10. When I am tired of you, then you will die, because I want you to. After I have degraded you below earthworm status, drained all your strength and have torn down all your resistances, allowing any germ that wants to attack your system, you actually have no other choice but to join all of the others who thought they could control me and die.

By Tyree Drafton Sr.