#addicted poems on Hello Poetry

Hannah Zedaker Sep 2017

I have a tendency.
A tendency not many think of
yet
they think of it all the time.
A tendency that,
will never die.
Even if it evokes that pain in me
in the blink of an eye.
This tendency festers,
like an infection

that’s
stopping my heart.
This tendency,
makes me feel everything
and nothing
at the exact same time.
This tendency is making me crazy
but
what if crazy wasn’t so bad?
My tendency
makes me hate myself
and love everything about me
for the exact same reason.

This tendency
can ruin my day.
But,
this tendency,
sits like a sack on my back
that I never want to lose.
Because
despite the straps digging into my sides,
this tendency
is why I cherish being alive.
this tendency,
I speak so poorly of
that I don’t want to leave me be
why
this tendency
is that I tend to love
so hopelessly
it’s the scariest part of me.

#emotions #pathos #bad #habit #solemn #sorrow #abandoned #addicted

Blanca Enigma Aug 2017

Serial dater

I didn't understand how I went from one relationship to the next. I still don't know. I still don't know how I've told so many women I loved them but never really meant it though. I've got this 2 year itch I can't seem to get past it. I've gone from this to that like a **** game of chest but now I'm gasping. I would like to think that I brought some good to them but as I write this down, I know I was never for them. I'm a serial dater filled with commitment issues that I can't fix. Now I'm searching for my next fix like a drug addict looking for their next hit. I'm addicted to the thought of being in love and committed to someone who I already know doesn't deserve to find out the hurt they are about to endure. I'm a *******. Clearly I have too many issues that is hard to change or better yet, maintain.

#serial #dater #fear #commitment #addicted

Jekaterina Maslova Aug 2017

by the ocean

earlier
when the sun woke me up
I decided to take a morning shower
in your endless despair

I unfolded
between the delicate creases
that the storming waves
had built up around you

you caught me riding your wave
and unmercifully, you thought
you would drown me
since I was drowning anyway

choking
on your salty sea water
became my daily dose of *******
my comforting shelter

as the ocean having unlimited power
I kept on stumbling
underneath
your bleached layer of foam

Now I am cleaner
than a drug addict after *******
my spirit finally clearer
than the ocean wind
only weeds still tangled up in my toes

#addicted #obsession #love #lettinggo #ocean #waves #drowning #clean

Liz Carlson Aug 2017

Addicted to the Sadness

They ask me if I'm okay,
it seems like I never am.
Every moment of joy
is drowned by the pain from my past.
Am I addicted to the sadness?
There's something so beautiful about that storm inside.
About that dark night where all you can do is cry.
There's something so magical about feeling everything so deeply.
Tell me, am I addicted to the sadness?
It's the emotion I feel the most
and there's something so inviting about it.
It's suffocating me slowly,
but I'm addicted to the sadness.

#sad #depressed #addicted #pain #loss

TS Jul 2017

Social Media

'Likes' are not hugs.

Comments are not kisses.

Views are not a hand holding mine.

And yet I crave this attention more than anything. Eyes stretched wide, I live for that next hit, the next 'like'. I lose sleep over how many views I need to keep going. I am a wasteland of media, searching for any signs of life.

I am despirate.

I am addicted.

I am far from social.

-t.s.

#social #media #depression #anxiety #addicted #like #comment #view

Monalisa Jul 2017

morphine

Is she ordinary?
Full of nothingness
Stuck in a cage or
Worse
in her own existence

Maybe this liberté
Is not for us
It is hidden, forbidden,
and worthless

He is a wild man
Insane and awesome
The only one that
This child never stopped loving
The only one that
She wants never stop
Him

Am I addicted?
Should I take a poison?
Protect me, self, from what I desire
As he always did
Grab me, choke me, hold (me)
on

Words cannot explain, so
do your lie to yourself
You are the only one that knows

#love #addicted #existence

Sandoval Jun 2017

Addicted

Love* is a drug,

distance is rehab.

One look from you eyes,

and I'll relapse.

*Sandoval

#sandoval #addicted #love #distance #drug #rehab #relapse #eyes #poetryofig #insapoets

Priyanjana malakar Jun 2017

Beauty is...

The way she smiles
The way she laughs
Beauty is in everything she does

She's a tender flower
Needed to be nourished
Her eyes are the ocean
Telling a beautiful story each day
Her lips are petals
Like of rose
Soft and tender.

Her smile, her eyes, her laugh
Beauty is in everything she does.

When she cares
It feels special
When she talks
It's so very different.

She herself is an entire miracle
Cause the way she smiles
The way she laughs
Beauty is in everything she does.

#mom #love #poetry #addicted