Addiction Family Poems

When i’m gone
They’ll all have moved on
I'm already a ghost
Haunting over the life id already lost

They’ve never saw me turn into a adult
I moved too...

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It made me so sad
when you told me
that you cut your 
wrists.

And it was made so much 
worse when
you rolled your sleeves
down and showed me
both...

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Life is much better today
Trauma has been staying away
My son is healing daily
I hold my head high
and keep my emotions steady

Addiction is hard on families
not...

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Breath my love, 
It'll get easier soon enough. 
Don't forget your past,
Learn to except it, 
Your past has got you this far, 
Learn from it,...

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You are gone and I am okay.
In fact, I wanted it this way.
For you, life was a machete.
I always wished you to be free.

Leaving us...

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If in my beginnings I saw a photograph I saw that somethings was a mortal fact
A mortal sympathetic pack
My body sympathetic to instrumental tracks
In our...

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Digital Regret

Smoke filled the room as dark shadows play,  
A man sat lost, day after day,  
With a mouse gripped tight in hand,...

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Last week was filled with extreme highs and lows
Having a loved one with mental illness and substance abuse
Can be like that, with threats of suicide...

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Within the heart, a battle rages on,
Some rise victorious, others overthrown.
A war unseen, a fight for inner peace,
A silent struggle, that knows no release.

We see...

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I was born in the sunshine of your house.
I remember the soft fold of your smile,
As you read me bedtime stories,
Sprouting in my memory,
The fall...

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I am so grateful that I got the experience of being a mom
the total love and affection for a small being
who you get to love,...

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Needles on the dresser, pipes in your hands, 
Chaos as the soundtrack to a childhood undone. 
Screams that hurt my ears, objects thrown and broken,...

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I will take your daughter.
I will take your son. 
I will control their minds,
their hearts,
their souls.
I will rip them from the inside out.
From your family,
and...

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When you have a thief in your family
It changes everything
Drug addict?
Almost the same thing; you can relate.

When they visit, you are uncomfortable
Things disappear during their...

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BROKEN DOWN ANGELS

It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor 
And learning how tae run.

Potty trained and full eh...

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