Uplifting Addiction Poems

I fear the morrow -
caged by past, I rip apart;
yet today's growth blossoms....

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I was once headed straight to the gates of hell
I was lost, dazed and confused with no Intel
I was an addict doing drugs and such...

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Oh beneficent one

Drew me closer to your divinity,
help me shed my mortal skin

May your galactic glory
illuminate my dormant spirit within

You quell my perpetual clinging
expunge my...

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Lone key in between all of the keys hanging on a ring.
Lone dandelion wish standing before the pink tulips blooming.
Lonely me smoking in the sunset...

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So I'll go sick. It's just a little bit.
                ...

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A life recovered from Stygian depths
tainted by the horrors of dark abyss.
He falters as he takes one thousand steps, 
		a life recovered.

Pale sunlight stippling through...

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The Only Star For Me

It’s my corner coffee shop, Starbucks 
The cheer starts here with hot coffee
I’ll get yours, it’s nothing, awe shucks
A home away...

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It's like your world is ending 
Everything comes crashing down
Can't catch your breathe
Down, down, down you drown

Waking in the morning
To another dreaded day
Going through the...

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To make it this far,
You've fought failure with fire
To extinguish the fear.
To make it through hell,
You've looked the devil in his face
And managed to escape.
You've...

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I linger at my laptop day and night.
Not making a fiction to shift a slight.
My ink was poised on the tips of my knuckles.
There isn't...

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Freedom flew in like a whistle blower
I saw freedom in numbers by the score

I am vigilant twenty four seven
Forgive as much as you're forgiven

Good stewards...

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Surf’s up,
Heads are down,
Timing their move,
Concentrated frown,
Salt lips,
Hard swallow,
Adrenalin pumping, 
There is no tomorrow,
The white horses charge,
Their chariots follow,
Surfing speeding waves,
Above a spray crested hollow,
For...

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When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance

Synonymous with light hypnotic mode
inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed
sustained me...

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Redemptions long road
promised aphrodisiacs
spark kama sutra breezes...

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Heroin or Heroine?
by Michael R. Burch

(for mothers battling addiction)

serve the Addiction;
worship the Beast;
feed the foul Pythons
your flesh, their fair feast ...

or rise up, resist
the huge...

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