All Roads Lead to One End

I live this vicious cycle

Tempted by each new day

All roads lead to one end

And in the end I am sure to pay

My thirty years have built up control

I do my best to not get out of hand

I maintain a facade to fool others

My addiction, they just wouldn’t understand

In the days of my youth I held tight to hope

I knew God would someday save me from myself

My present could not be any more different

My faith has long been put up on a shelf

Today I’m a teacher, a mother, and wife

I have commitments that I must live up to

Even success has brought me no comfort

Using will always be something I do

I couldn’t conceive of a world without my precious poison

Future euphoria keeps me moving on

I will forever be but an addict

For the map of my life has been drawn

I am thankful I’ve escaped the needle

For long ago, it was my bitter friend

And although I am maintaining

All roads lead to one end.