SILAS
OLA ABAYOMI
ADDICTION: MASTER OF MANY SOULS
Addiction-highway that leads
its travelers to nowhere,
a hypnotic condition of
mind-
master or idol to many
souls-
which victims have no
control
over.
Under its arms-several
people
nestle-
its palms-a deceptive crystal
ball-
that gives non-reliable
future
prediction,
its feet, though very swift,
always, it runs a lost race.
In its courtyard are myriads,
subjects of its kingdom are
young males and females,
viable economic group,
biologically imbued in
the society.
Addiction neither hires
nor provides noble venture
for its
own,
still, in its courtyard are
millions
layabout;
wages it pays is time
stealing,
inheritance it bequeaths is
poverty and irredeemable
ruination to those with
opaque-mental-disposition
(OMD).
During the day and at night,
multitude come to its
courtyard-
to receive promises,
promises-like dewdrops-
misty and foggy-
just like mirage, which will
never be.
Addiction, a bizarre
condition of
mind with a possessed-
personality and unholy-
power that turns rational
mind to zombie.
So powerful, yes,
very commanding,
it takes physical control of
those-it rules;
addiction-so lethal-
it renders mental power useless-
by deactivating brain wires
and
electrical signals or at best
turns brain automated.
Without question,
addiction demands obedience,
expects loyalty from its disciples,
making religion out of fans;
religion that gravitates
toward perversion and
absurdity.
For centuries its vineyard has
produced more rotten fruits
of:
depression, hyperactive
disorder,
solitude, relationship
deficiency,
social, moral, and sexual
behaviors
contrary to reason and
decency.
How long will addiction rule
over humankind?
Insofar man has more rum in
drums,
inasmuch as more drugs on
the streets and in the
neighborhoods,
rule as king.
To the extent,
we build everything around
sex and,
much as sex’s traditional
tripartite role of: intimacy,
procreation, and pleasure are
replaced by: man-defined
roles of:
sex as a tool, sex as a business,
and
sex as a power;
addiction shall keep
permanent
residency with man,
walk tall, control the quintet-
mankind makeup;
more so, torment man with
horsewhip.
Silas Ola Abayomi
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