A Well-Crafted Addict (N.O.W.S.)

Trigger Warning

Verse 1

Born broken, the fix is in.

Upon my DNA

It is written --- a well-crafted addict.

My innocence was aborted,

So my mother's NOWS addict could be born --- afflicted.

Unlike you,

I was stitched together,

In a womb of addiction.

A forever gift from my mother.

I'm a well-crafted addict.

Chorus

I've given life my best shot.

But I've come to suspect,

There's no simple fix.

For a well-crafted addict.

Bridge

Here at the altar of the poison demon,

Every few minutes a well-crafted addict is born.

Lives sacrificed by their mothers' sins,

My loving gangrene inheritance.

Chorus

I've given life my best shot.

But I've come to suspect,

There's no simple fix.

For a well-crafted addict.

Outro

There's no simple fix.

For a well-crafted addict.

If there was, I would have asked my mom.

I'll forgive her again

-- when I get my morphine

-- when the fix is in

© 2026 John Osinga. All rights reserved. St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.

Author's note: NOWS (Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome) is a growing global crisis --- "Every few minutes a well-crafted addict is born."