Twelve Steps

This is inspired by a piece i read from Raven about an addict. I hope you enjoy

I�m a broken promise
you could never keep
All your shattered dreams
You can�t see slip through your hands
Self narcissistic it would seem

I'm broken,
All my pieces scattered
for you to see
But I'm all you need
Fist of concrete
and blacktop for my feet
City streets all fast to sleep
Still hearing my heart beat

Near forgotten whispers
still haunt your thoughts
Handed out my love and hugs
in the form of 45 slugs
Sleepin on dirty cardboard
Laying lilies at my feet
calling me your personal Jesus
lost messiah
back alley Prophet
Out for my own profit
Twelve steps behind you
Never able to escape your past

You were so beautiful
so beautiful� once
Look what I have done to you
Could�ve had the world on a string
Until I got my fingers into your veins
But nothing left of who you were
Living the life of twenty dollar w***e
Looking for your next high
Screaming out as you cry

I am broken
I am the lie that took your life
I have no pity, nor sympathy
So close your eyes
I was all you ever need

Another Round A Poem by Raven

Reviews

[Petey]

Having dealt with this battle myself and the on going struggle I face every day. I have a deeper appreciation for this. I have heard the quiet moans of that internal beast that hungers to destroy everything I have worked so hard to gain. Trust, love, forgiveness, and my life. I was using heroin, cocaine, and using booze to chase it all down with. I still have a hard time looking at my own face in the mirror knowing what I have done and wonder about the things I did that I can't remember. You truly captured that feeling I feel and know.

[E. M. Murren]

Wake up and smell the coffee... What a poem for so early in the a.m. LOL I just popped in before getting to work and couldn't lose the opportunity to read your new work. Fabulous, but then it is one of yours. LOL This reads like a lion's roar. Powerful. Many Many Cheers!!!!

[Jenny Davis]

Aw, this is another example of how well you are able to speak for ANY one person...This is so sad and yet it is so true. I have seen some good people go down because of this menace. Well written, Robert :)

[Collie]

The fact that you are able to place yourself in other people's shoes is a sign of a truly great writer. I could not understand this life nor would I ever want to. The way you gave addiction a voices that is haunting and seeming so painfully truthful frightens me to read this.

[Dezaraye]

This is such a sad and heartwrenching piece. The photo at the end really got to me. I can't imagine living this way ... it would be so hard.

[Tamme]

I have someone in my life this piece so perfectly fits. I wish I could make him read it but the words would fall on deaf ears. So well done giving voice to the addiction.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Gosh Robert a very powerful poem, shedding light on one of the biggest problems our country faces everyday... Written once again with such brilliant insight... Bravo!!

[Midnight Rose ~*Anna Ro..]

Wow. This is powerfully written, and yet sad. I love reading your work, Robert, you never cease to amaze me. Awesome write. Brilliant.

[RHEA CROSLEY]

It pulls at my heart to find deliverance for such a one as this. May heaven this soul oh please to find out victory. Thanks