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Addiction

I'm drowning and I can't find the surface

The more I fight to breathe the harder it is to do so

The more I struggle the closer I come to death

I try and I try to reach the surface to see the blue sky but the more I fight the further I sink

My life is being pulled from me

My soul ripped away

The more I snort the further I go

The more I shoot up the closer I am to death

The more I use the more I need

**** coke and pills are my life

I pushed the ones who loved me away

I don't see the pain I'm causing them

I look in her eyes and I don't see her pain

She knows I need help but I keep using

She sees my addiction but I cannot

She loves me but is letting me go

What is my excuse

Why do I continue to **** myself

So many whys

So many questions

What would I see

If I could see myself in someone else's eyes

Would I like the person staring back at me

Would I see a strung out addict

Would I see a lost soul

So I'll snort one more perk

I'll smoke some more **** and

I'll shoot up some more *******

Because now they control my life

 

 

 

(this poem is about I guy I used to date we remained friends and his addiction was the inspiration behind this poem. Drugs and other substance abuse can really take a lot away.)

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toni-lynn-whitt
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Jan 5, 2010
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