Ashes

They are piled up from the two packs of ciggeretts trying to calm the nerves I've spent all my money on to act the way I'm trying to combat. They are in a huge pile at every house I visit from burning the evidence that would get me 20 to life. They are evident in everyone's faces from the bridges I've burnt before new ones could be built. They where held in a shaking hand to put on a can so the crack wouldn't melt through the holes I put in the can with the tab. They where the remains of my best friends house that the police used as evidence to prove we where cooking meth. They where what my clothes where reduced to from nodding out with a cigarette in my mouth from the handful of xanax I ate. It was what was left of beloved relatives from the funerals I didn't attend ...... It is what my new life has risin from
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June 17, 2015 at 4:01 PM
Hi Nathaniel, A nice warm WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you have fun with this wonderful community. You'll find many friendly poets who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I will enjoy following you and your poetry when you are ready :) We are Lucky To Have you. Enjoy Poetry Soup:) Your New Poet Friend @-> LINDA <-@
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June 16, 2015 at 2:03 PM
Nathaniel, this is a sweet Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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June 16, 2015 at 5:08 PM
Thanks. Ima keep posting them if someone wants to read them
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June 16, 2015 at 11:15 AM
special K lots of fun
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