uthority in his heart. This rebellious nature of Jim’s which led to incredible amounts of drug use and drinking is what spurred his dark lyrics and what some would say brought him to the end of his short lived life. Some people thought Jim had a death wish, but I find it difficult to judge the way he chose to live and die. It was his insatiable thirst for life that killed him, not any love of death. Morrison’s short tragic life is the stuff of which our heroes and our gods of youth are made. Nonconformist, poet, drug addict, alcoholic, accidental spiritual leader and insane are some of the labels you could hang on Jim Morrison. If you ask me, he was a free spirit ready and willing to share his wisdom (if not a little misguided) to any who would listen. He knew that people knew the way as he stated in “You’re Lost Little Girl,” but that they were scared to break away from the unfeeling nature that society bestowed upon them. “If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel”(Jim Morrison)....
