Absent Friends - Narcotic Wasteland

You are lost but not forgotten

You are with me every day

All of the friends I had

That threw their lives away

The mark they made on space and time

Like the addict they became it is fading away

The epidemic is growing

Taking more lives everyday

Some drugs are even prescribed by a doctor

They take advantage of people in every way

I wish somehow

That I could have made them change

Make them see how important they were

To themselves and the people around them

They became slaves to the substance

They could not help themselves

They could not realize

So they passed away

I tried to encourage them

To embrace their talents and crafts

They could not realize

They passed away