Endurance Match

I barely dipped my toes in
And suddenly all my foes are frozen
I can smell your cab approaching smells like rehab, air freshener and cheap gin
tough times surviving sober in the street friend
no big birds just your familiar insecurities and demons
screaming in your good ear every last thing you want to hear
hiding inside your fear 
waiting to interfere as soon as you relax
ultimately ensuring relapse
just face facts it's part of recovery exactly what every junkie needs
a guilt free justification
this could be it the straw responsible for breaking an already broken being beyond repair
listen closely children
what I'm about to share will fracture the foundation you've been making sorry to inform you
santas not real and life's not fair pressure pressing from every direction
assumptions are the ignored insecurity of others
Absent mothers doing shots of absinthe in the bath with infants
I know it stinks
but my instincts are extremely accurate
truth is
only way is through
in order to live it's imperative to exit and enter directly
only the shit storms epicenter
odds of surviving unscathed sort of sane and mild tempered are astronomical