XStraightEdgeX
by Alec Hodgman
You ask me how I live my life
And I answer with X’s three
But there’s no way to understand
What this pledge means to me
It is to me complete control
Over what I do and make
It is my perseverance
Against the toxins that they take
It makes me what I want to be
And what I will become
A warrior for my purity
Free of filth and scum
My X’s are my armor
My shield and my sword
I become a champion
Defending my reward
The path ahead is cold and lonely
But I’m a man of stone
For the strongest in this vicious world
Is he who stands alone
This life is not an easy one
Never painless to get by
But at the bottom of a bottle
My answers do not lie
So offer me your poisons
Your shots, your drags, your rips
Offer me seduction
With forked tongue through pursed lips
Offer me what takes away
All that I have achieved
And watch me point and laugh
Then turn around and leave
And spare me all your wisdom
On how to stay alive
For we will see whose lungs still breathe
When I am forty-five
So ask me and I’ll say these words:
For my life I pledge
Freedom from extinction
’Til the day I die
StraightEdge
-Alec Hodgman XXX
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