Shooting up

Shooting up, originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

I saw the one guy inject the other in the ankle then coming back and hour later the other one was injecting his friend in the neck. All this on the steps of a church in the heart of the city. Just metres away from hundreds of people waiting for their bus home.

Immediately afterwards I wandered passed a couple, students most probably, talking and looking at each other in a way that left me with very little doubt that they were very much in love.

Love in all its forms?

The Hurt

"I watched the needle take another man.", originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ.

"I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way "

Johnny Cash - The Hurt