Addiction and Recovery - Hello Poetry

Apr 2022

Filomena

You make me easy
and I make you hard
You can't help but tease me
When I let down my guard

I get all flustered
And stammer and sigh
And see love in the luster
Of light in your eye

❤

#love

Mar 2022

sandra wyllie

I'm Splintered

from the winter storm
that cut me down.
Now I’ve thorns
I wear as crowns.
A fallen tree,
my bark stripped.
Now I’ve quills to fill
the holes
since I tipped.
No one wants a pointed edge,
broken stock,
a spiky hedge.

Feb 2022

rk

tonic

you shot across my sky
like a rare constellation
now yours
is the only touch i'm craving

our eyes meet
and i drown completely
each moment with you
leaves me aching so sweetly

feeling drunk off every kiss
i wonder if you know
that yours
is the only face i miss

so little time
with so much i long to do
i'd run straight into trouble
if it led me to you.

#lost #love #lover #friendship #longing #desire #passion #missing #craving

Dec 2021

Amanda Kay Burke

Matter Over Mine

They say it's mind over matter...

What do you do when you've already lost your mind?

I just thought this up and feel pretty genius right about now haha

#mine #matter #mind #quote #strength

Nov 2021

Amanda Kay Burke

Slip Beneath Smile

Slip beneath the smile adorning face
Make-up concealing my imperfect skin
Under surface is an entire world
Depression I carefully cage within
Facade shows happiness
Layered to disguise the pain
Flesh outside beautifully sculpted
So wounds won't bleed
They remain
Hair brushed three dozen times
Light and wind take toll
There is fear fueling my sails
Yet I manage to control
Within heart inside my chest
War rages
There is no sign
Like a lost puppy wander the earth
Dusty road winding path of mine
Craving stars my eyes once reflected
Leading back to inner peace
In dark zero lights twinkle
Waiting for despair's release
And slide into a familiar costume
Pulling me out of dismay
Shatters and exposes truth
Soul with too many demons to slay

I should just give up

#slip #beneath #smile #life #love #addiction #shatters #exposes #truth

Oct 2021

Marilina

Room

I’m in this room
Four walls
A ceiling
***** floor

Big window
Heavy curtains
Unmade bed
A wooden door

It’s open
I can go
But I don’t
No more

Oct 2021

Amanda Kay Burke

The Sunrise And Promise..

The sunrise
Promise of a new day is a blessing I don't deserve

The autumn
Chance to change it brings is a gift I won't accept

Thoughts of beauty make me resent myself

Pulled me up a thousand times yet I still dig yet another hole to crawl back into

Dormancy making heart itch with restlessness

Living life in a frightened state of inactivity

Leaving pain somewhere I won't find it again but somehow it always makes its way back home

Like a lost pet

#sunrise #promise #life #love #live #chance #change #brings #gift #accept

Oct 2021

Jade Lima

Sorry about the things i say and i guess write

Day after day, slowly going insane.
Sane insanity and level headedness is both a blessing and a curse.
My life is being dragged through the dirt.
I'm always sorry, but life just hurts.
Desecration only goes so far.
But I'm left with deepening scars.
If only I could rid this mess from my mind and being.
But life is no longer something I can fathom breathing.
There is no beauty instilled.
So I guess I can say goodbye to any free will.
I guess it was just an illusion, but life is nothing more than a hoax filled with confusion.

Sorry😅😫🤕
Edit: ******* people I regret writing this. I wish I could say worse but look at that you all finally made me *******

Oct 2021

Amanda Kay Burke

Loitering

I wonder where the hell I went wrong
Couldn't see till it was too late
Now I wander lost within walls of this labyrinth
A victim of inevitable fate

I was warned to be careful
But I threw caution aside
Desperate for peace of some sort
Problems eventually multiplied

Said it was only temporary
Till my resolve began to cave
And the ditch I had dug surely deepened
Until the hole became my grave

When the walls surrounding me
Got to such a threatening height
That they shut out rays from the sun
I adjusted to life without light

But I long to give one final attempt
To climb out from depths of this abyss
Laughter ringing in memories past
Is an artifact I wistfully miss

Every day my smile fades more
Realizing one of my greatest fears
That the longer I loiter in this low place
The more likely it will forever disappear

I'm forgetting how to be happy

#loitering #life #depression #addiction #forever #likely #more #disappear

Aug 2021

Ciel Noir

Haven

just this once
can I not run
from a safe haven
full of hope
into a den of beasts?

why do I look for that?
am I afraid of peace?