Embracing Nothingness

Addiction is overtaking our world

the warmth of the flow embraces me

slowly it moves through my veins

carried willingly by my blood

touching nerves throughout my body

while slowly shutting them down

so the darkness comes closer

embracing my soul

with dark intent to leave all

feelings within a conscious mind

outside of my reality

so there is no need to deal

with life beyond the hand in my face

Reviews

[RomaJ]

I don't have any experience with this. So this was very chilling to read. Maybe they feel too much and just can't cope, finding ways to numb it all. Very sad and dark road to walk alone. It seems the things we seek to ease becomes the very thing, we create.

Hopefully, they can find the way to recovery and healing.

Nicely written and thought-provoking piece.

[Willard Wells]

Thank you so much for your kind words and stopping by. It usually starts with peer pressure or I think more often self-medication. Peer pressure just leads you to find something that can sometimes calm the noise going on in your mind. Once an addiction takes hold it lurks for life. You can only learn to control to a safe level. Once an addict, always and addict. Our government's approach to drugs is wrong.

[Nigel Newman]

Willard Hi. Like other folk, I thought this flowed very well and painted a dark image. Just to add a different slant, I thought it may interest you that my immediate reaction was that this was about drowning, as indeed perhaps in some ways it is. In Britain there have very recently been several deaths of holidaymakers getting into difficulties with incoming tides on coastal walks on the rocks or just caught by currents, so drowning is on the news quite a lot at the moment.

Well done!

[Willard Wells]

I can see that this could have been read that way. We had one city here in the USA, they had 50 drug overdoses in a day and that triggered my vision. Thank you for taking time to read and comment.

[Lorry]

This is so well crafted and oozes the struggles of the mind, as well as the body, of being addicted in more than just the phrase. It shows the person, the mind, the thought and how it can be overtaken, but never completely consumed, as such words and moments of clarity as your write show perfectly. Superb.

[Willard Wells]

I appreciate your time and kind words. Addiction is not really understood by most. Not something to get to comfortable with.

[Papaya]

I think you wrote this well.
I can't speak from experience but your message is delivered in a way that gets the message across.

[Willard Wells]

Thank you for reading and commenting on my work. People need to understand what is going on and the drug war is being handled all wrong. It's a mental health issue.

[Papaya]

It's not always a mental health issue though. Sometimes it starts out as recreational as opposed to self-medicational. Either way, I agree education and understanding are important.

[Willard Wells]

You are correct. I just see so many coming in from a mental health or stress position.

[Papaya]

Yes, I cannot disagree.

[Lydia Shutter]

Addiction is a terrible disease...and a growing problem. People want to escape reality, but the truth is, reality is still there and will be waiting at the end of the high. Well written. Lydi**

[Willard Wells]

Thank you for your kind words and addiction, II am familiar with, but I also understand control and management of addition. An addicted personality will always be and addicted personality, but how it is managed is what is important. Unfortunately the approach of is wrong in solving the problem.

[Pete]

Excellently done. Elegant writing style. Excellent flow (no pun intended). Very heartfelt, honest emotion.

[Willard Wells]

Thanks Pete. I appreciate your kind words and your time in reading my work.

[B. Boileau]

The dark corridors of an addicts mind is indeed a lonely place, and all too frequently visited. Although I understand the attraction of life in the rabbit hole, I'll take the harsh reality that life presents.
A powerful write my friend

[Willard Wells]

Thank you so much for your time and comments on my writing. Greatly appreciated

[Coyote Poetry]

Honest, powerful and deep journey written. You took the reader to lonely place. Thank you Willard for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[Willard Wells]

Thanks for the time and comments on my work. Greatly appreciated.

[Coyote Poetry]

Was my pleasure my friend and you are welcome.

[Riddhi]

Great work!!!!! I really enjoyed this work...Keep on writing and thanks for sharing...

[Willard Wells]

Thank you so much for your kind words and taking time to read my work.

[AaronFreitas]

This is a great write Willard. This is the first piece I have read in a while by anyone and I read it, re-read it and really put myself into those words and felt the emotion from the feelings behind it. As I read it the second time it was almost as if I could feel the way the blood was taking it throughout the body hitting each nerve one at a time slowly shutting reality out and embracing the dark escape. I loved your work Willard :)

[Willard Wells]

Thank you, Aaron. Every time I read it myself the pace of my read gets slower as I feel the slow flow. I appreciate your kind words.

[Willard Wells]

And Yay, we have water again.

[AaronFreitas]

We definitely do my friend. I drove to Yosemite on Friday and walked around, hiked some and just enjoyed the beauty.

[Willard Wells]

Nice trip.