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Addiction

Living in darkness where you don’t belong
Sitting in shadows to hide your wrong

Longing for light and sun on your face
Let it take you away to a happy place

Gone too long and too far away
Trying to keep the demons at bay

A faint shell of who you used to be
The person within you long to see

But people turn, when you let them in
They only see your faults and sins

So hard to face the wasted years
Without the pain and salted tears

The guilt will eat away good thoughts
Blurring the visions of what you sought

So scared to promise again, and fail.
You must believe that you can prevail.

The love you feel for others won't keep you clean
Far too many times, you've proven, and we've seen

That damnable drug dissolved your recovery dreams,
And repetatively ripped your family apart at the seams.

So love yourself, and be sincere,
Then those lying voices won’t be so clear.

All you need, you have within.
Life anew, you can begin.

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  • Zephyrus
    August 4, 2007

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    very good poem

    I really like this poem and I agree with it up to a point... but for someone like me who doesn't have friends (cos most of em are backstabbers) and never had a girlfriend (so i dont know to begin asking), I dont think theres a whole lot of "anew" for me if you know what I mean... but this poem was still a very good poem, especially about how "people turn from you when you let them in"... Very good write.


    • screamingsilently
      August 4, 2007
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      THANKS

      I am glad that you liked it. I wrote it for my cousin, who is deep in addiction right now and I was hoping that she could relate to it and draw strength from it. I hope that one day she can see that she must love herself and let that be enough of a reason to fight for life! The last 2 lines especially are my message to her...she has all that she needs within herself and once she can see that she is worthy, maybe then she can stop blaming herself for all she has done, and thereby she can begin a new life. It was a very emotional piece for me since it is about someone that I love dearly! I sincerely appreciate your comment and am happy that you could relate to part of it...that is the greatest reward a writer can have in my book