Can it get any better then this?
I think not...

Thank you, hun

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Life is easy; it's dying that's hard.

The rhythm is perfect, copaine.

Hmm . . . I might enter this contest myself.

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"There is a story that comes before all other stories and of which all the stories I read seem to carry an echo, immediately lost."

~Italo Calvino

Thank you

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Life is easy; it's dying that's hard.

Very nice, I love the rhyme scheme you chose for this. That's why I love your poetry.. you used a simple flow but everything you wrote was completely coherent and had meaning. (Something not everyone can achieve ) None of the rhyme seemed forced, but when I was reading it, I stumbled over the 5th line of the 3rd stanza. Could just be that I'm reading at 8:00 am?

Thank you for the comment, hun

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Life is easy; it's dying that's hard.

What was the trouble with it? I've had more complaints so I don't think its because you're tired.

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Life is easy; it's dying that's hard.

Good composition and use of rhyme.

The overall sense of metaphor seems a bit cliched, but it is delivered very well.
Good work.

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Stand up for what you believe in...

It wasn't really a complaint, and I read it like a million times trying to figure out just what it was that didn't sit right with me. This will probably sound stupid, but its just an opinion.

I guess when I first read it I knew exactly where you were going. And I loved the line before that, where you used the term "hardcore meth," it sounded grungy and fit perfectly. But the next line.. I guess my initial reaction is that it doesn't really cause death. It could cause withdrawal. And then I thought it over and accepted the fact that in this case, an addict would see withdrawal as a sort of fate worse than death. But when I came to terms with that, I just kept going over the phrase. And I just imagined an Rx commercial, where there's some droning voice saying "warning, discontinued use may result in..." so the word "cause" seemed kind of out of place in my head.

I don't know that's just my opinion, I hope you get what I mean, because I'm not too sure I explained it well. It was just a minor preference thing that exists in my head, your poem is amazing.