The Paradise of Doom

I stand facing obstacles on one side of the road,

A beautiful field with lilies and daisies on the other side.

Which one should I take to reach my destination,

The hard way or the shortcut?

My mind fills with memories,

Of my traumatic past,

I decide to take the shortcut,

Although I know it’s not going to last.

I step into the field with beautiful sunshine,

Surrounded by flowers and scents of every kind,

The cloud seems like yummy cotton candy,

I hear a voice that says, “C’mon in and feel the beauty all around”

I take another step into the vast expansive field,

And it seems like eternal peace,

I can tell myself floating on the blue, azure, and calm waters,

I hear a voice that says, “C’mon in and feel the beauty all around”

The voice appears to be luring me,

Deep down into a beautiful treacherous trap of downfall,

I don’t heed my conscious and float away through valleys and hills,

Lost in its enticing spell and losing myself into forbidden paradise.

As I reach the midst of this marvellous new world,

I see the outline of a figure – dark and merciless,

Slowly but surely drinking into me and my soul,

Was this death in disguise that had lured me into this trap?

I try to run back out the vast , expansive field,

That was now turning darker, hazy and dangerous with time,

But there is no way out, no exit ticket,

When you are surrounded by a ring of black surging fire.

I feel the chilling laugh of death,

The walls are closing in,

The burning fire raging to gobble me up whole,

And I feel the heat on my brow and the cold hands of death.

The fire began scorching me whole,

The hands of death torturing me ever so slowly,

Prepping to drag all of me to the other side,

As my soul is feasted upon by the dementors of the netherworld.

Head my words,

Addiction might feel like the beautiful, bountiful field at first,

But there is no going back from where you started,

When you are surrounded by the heat of the dangerous ring of black fire,

While cold death plays it’s tricky torture game on you,

Leading to your ultimate downfall.