CHASING THE DRAGON
 
We are being slowly destroyed
devoured by a new greed
that will not allow any other need to exist
  
Families, scarred, their members lost to narcotics
sons and daughters destroyed by the ravages of cocaine
teenagers overdosed on heroin
or hooked on “crack or ‘ectasy’
it’s not just for the spoiled brat of the filthy rich
it’s also for the slum kids who get sucked into it
users, dealers, they’re all victims
it consumes entire nations
across all barriers, all differences
black or white, rich or poor
that is the way it spreads.
 
As enmity which now threatens us all
and if it isn’t stopped
it’ll take over the world.
 
 Dr. G. Shreekumar Menon, (CEO - YNEFI)
 
(This poem was published in “Morning News”, Newspaper, Mangalore, dated 6th December, 1998)