Sugar and Caffeine

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You are sugar

and caffeine to me.

You pick me up

and get me going,

But I feel almost sinful

When I indulge

my appetite.

Too much of you can

Keep me up for days,

But when I Crash-

And I always crash-

It takes me too long

To purge you

from my system.

And the purge

Is always painful.

even if I’m set

On healthful abstinence,

I find myself craving you

At the oddest most

Importune moments,

And once that seed

Of insatiable need,

Of craving and desire,

is planted in my brain-

Once my mind

Becomes fixated

On blissful indulgence-

I find you.

I devour you

Like a starving person

Who suddenly realizes

All the pleasure

She has been missing.

just like that

I’m hooked-again-

I’m addicted-again-

Once more

I recklessly consume you

Because ,alas, as fate

would have it,

You are still sugar

and Caffeine to me.