Maybe as a wake-up call or as a reminder to those who may have forgotten, poets Nurah and Lams Ahmed are gracefully segueing our 2020 year into a poetic 2021 with a beautiful reminder of a poem, ‘Addicted’. In the spoken word, the poets have tactfully journeyed their audience, through how people who are addicted to anything in any form feel on the inside against all the prejudice.
Lams Ahmed
In a posture that depicted a guy who is addicted to drugs but is sober as he tells his story, Lams Ahmed opened the poem with its refrain:
Just one more bear, just one more smoke
Excerpts from Addicted.
Just one more taste, just one more stroke
Just one more night, just one more day
Follow your master, to take it all away
He then tells a story of how his imaginary self was taught in his boyhood to fall into hard drugs to wash away his pain if he got any. Then he explained how he initially held back but ultimately fell into drugs. He also told a story of his extensive addiction to porn and patronizing hookers. And the fact doing drugs cost him his education.
Then Nurah The Poet gracefully transition the spoken word into her verse with a repetition of the refrain:
Just one more bear, just one more smoke
Excerpts from Addicted.
Just one more taste, just one more stroke
Just one more night, just one more day
Follow your master, to take it all away
Nurah The Poet
Nurah tells how her imaginary self sits behind a book reflecting on her life and pleased that she is fine and done doing drugs. Then somehow she indulges one more jolt and it takes her back to the roller coaster of finding pleasure in one more puff every other day. She tells how hard it is for her to break away from addiction though she knows she has to. She also talked about drugs affecting her bond with her family, her body, and her whole being. Also, an important point was made by her about how people roam about all fine but then fight addiction inside. She ended her verse and the spoken word with the refrain:
Just one more bear, just one more smoke
Excerpts from Addicted
Just one more taste, just one more stroke
Just one more night, just one more day
Follow your master, to take it all away
See the spoken word video below:
