I stand in a hot shower
turn it to cold
and wonder:

Can you imagine
if you took a drug
and the come up
was like an ice bath
that you didn't expect
but had no choice
other than to persist
through a painful cold
that would kill any human
but keeps you alive
because it's only in your mind?

And then after the cold
comes the greatest high of your life
and you are enjoying it so much 
and think without a doubt 
the cold was so worth it.

But what you are now experiencing
is being sober and warm,
born again
out of the drugged ice bath.

So that what you are enjoying so much 
as the greatest high of your life
is really just normal lukewarm life
that seems so pleasantly warm
after such an awful cold.