This artwork is dedicate to all the good people that lost their way and lost their life to the opium poppy, otherwise known as Heroin and Opioids.

Opium Poppy

Beautiful, delicate and powerful

Manipulated to create  a dollar

Snorted, injected and smoked

Addicted to escape

Addicted to feel normal

Addicted for more

just a little more until  there is no more

Now you're knocking at deaths door

You've forgotten that love was around

You passed it up for the rush, just a little more.

Smart, beautiful and young. 

The grip was too strong. 

To hold your hand

To look into your eyes

To see your smile just one more time

will never be anymore.

In my dreams you are clean

In my heart you will always be. 

By Drita

Fused powder glass drawing on collage of newsprint mounted on 1/2" thick plywood. Each piece is 9"x 11" .