SOBRIETY
Starting my day with sobriety is a challenge I solely accept as my feet hit the floor
Obstacles overtime have me stumbling, falling down, and looking up to see who’s around
Better days surely await me if I can just break free from the old places, people and habits luring me back
Rundown houses, skin and bones, not wanting to be left alone, plagued with fear, reminding myself that’s not who I want to be
Isolating myself from the past, slowly making some new friends, but I’m afraid to let them into the my past
Every day I feel a little stronger, happier with the new me emerging
Today’s darkness has engulfed me with shame. Caving into an old friend in need, trapped I spin around doing my good deed. Self-image shattered no one to blame but ME
Yesterdays gone, brokenheartedly I confessed to my son, begged for forgiveness, a weeping rest in his arms, tomorrow is day one
Categories:
brokenheartedly, addiction,
Form: Acrostic
I sit here alone in the night looking out at the horizon
watching as the gathering storm clouds are outlined
by flashes of lightning in the inky blackness
The wind begins lashing at the trees as the fury
of the storm draws ever nearer and the rolling
cascade of thunder reaches my ears
The raw energy within the towering clouds remind
me of you and a pang of longing flows through me
at the memory of those days and nights together
It was a time when our love was fanned by the
winds of passion and desire and it burned white
hot like the lightning flashing across the skies
But all too soon the winds calmed and the passion
faded and you simply turned and walked away...
leaving in your wake the wreckage of our love
The pouring rain forces me from my memories as
the heat of remembered passion is cooled and
brokenheartedly I sit here alone...
mkt
2017
Categories:
brokenheartedly, heartbreak, love,
Form: Free verse