Rebirth

This piece is for anyone who has lived with the demon of addiction of any kind. If yo can relate, I feel your pain....remember...there is always hope

Up from the ashes

From hell to earth

Brand new creature

Complete rebirth

In a quagmire of sin

Mangled and torn

Struggling for hope

A soul reborn

Once ready to give up

Now ready to give

Once surrendering to addiction

Now fighting to live

In a sea of loneliness

Plummeting down

In an ocean of alcohol

Ready to drown

Comfortable with failure

Secure in my condition

Disease controlling me

A terrifying position

In a personal hell

Of my own creation

Death and long suffering

Were the final destination

Battered and beaten

Broken and sore

Have to fight back

Cannot take anymore

Change of lifestyle

Change of attitude

Change of perception

Change of latitude

Needing to regain

What used to be

Needing to resurrect

What once was me

Alcohol and addiction

I can still hear your voice

My proclamation to you

Is that I still have a choice

My reply to your calling

Most devastating beast

Away from your clutches

I must released

Realizing now

It is you or it is I

Realizing how

If you win...I die

Each day I deny you

Of your suffocating hold

You are not all powerful

You can be controlled

Your delusions of grandeur

Your intoxicating lies

The alpha to my omega

Continuation of my demise

I am well aware

You will never disappear

Whether joy or sorrow

Your presence will be near

The difference is I realize

You are not my only friend

You are the cunning demon

The beginning of my end

I stay clean and sober

Just to weaken you

Each day a daily battle

However something I must do

You were there when I was happy

You were there when I was crying

Manipulated me with misery

Held my hand as I was dying

I banish you old friend

In this moment of discovery

You cannot live , only exist

For I am in recovery...

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[justjenn_2u]

More addicts such as myself need to read this. Love the type format but most of all, the meaning and the last line "for I am in recovery." We will always be in recovery and you expressed this without a doubt in this poem.