Tag: addiction
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The Clouds of Mourning – A Poem About Depression and Pain
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As we go through life, there are inevitable seasons where it seems the skies are always cloudy, always raining, and the forecast will never change. Anyone that has ever dealt with depression (or any mental illness for that matter) knows that it is like a ghost that haunts you no matter where you go or…
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A Poem About Alcoholism and Addiction – “One More Taste”
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“One More Taste” – Poem About Alcoholism and Addiction Like an empty bottle of whiskey, I’ve drank you down to the last drop. The alcoholic in me is still thirsty, But my rationale tells me to stop. A madman feening, I sit alone with my demons, Pacing, wrestling with racing thoughts. Counting the minutes waiting…
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Growing Pains – A Poem
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Growing Pains – A Poem Why are these dreams that stretch out across my heart’s field of desire, That glisten Like droplets of drew sparkling on the morning grass, So hard to obtain, so hard to take to take hold of, And so hard to lasso and pull close to reality? The burden is bearing…
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Eclipse – A Poem
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Eclipse – A Poem Two sides of a conflicting coin Flip like faces in a dramatic act. Two intricate and separate forces entangle In a bitter struggle, leaving Earth cloaked in black. How can such a powerful light Be smothered by such a small, sinister hand? A visceral visual of what evil can accomplish When given…
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One Is Never Enough, Ten Will Never Do – A Poem About Addiction
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Having suffered through the bonds of addiction, I sought in this poem to somehow put into perspective what the transformation of an addict is like. It never starts off as tragedy, but as a solution to all life’s problems – the missing puzzle piece that we’ve been searching for all of our life to make…
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The Tinman – A Poem
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The Tinman – A Poem Your beacon blazes with the firestormOf a thousand pyres.In your eyes I find the fires –Smoke signals that rise to the heavensAnd lead me on a journeyOut of the confinement of earthly shacklesThat have clanged like lonely church bellsRinging in the early morning,Beckoning for deliverance around my feet for countless…
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My Own Prison – A Christian Poem
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My Own Prison – A Christian Poem Your law feels like a jailer’s prisonthat constrains me in a straight jacket,unable to move within my cell.I could strip off my dirty clothesand unlock my chamber door…But what awaits me out in the free world?What of my foolish desiresif life loses all meaning and beautybecomes simply a…
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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion
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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion Can eyes hide the riversOf pain that flow inside?Can ears mute the quaking, shakingOf a heart that boomsWith thunders of broken dreams?There’s a storm raging inside the manHe doesn’t wish the world to see,So he puts on his business attire each morningAnd paints…
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The Abundance of Your Mercy – A Christian Poem For Lent
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The Abundance of Your Mercy – A Christian Poem For Lent In the hour of my tribulation, I fail the same trials and tests Time and time again. Delighting for a fleeting moment in my selfish pleasures Before becoming quickly convicted of my sin. Do I find peace, joy, or comfort in my lustful wallowing?…
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Struggling With Sin
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“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” (Romans 7:15) I think just about everyone can relate to this verse. We find ourselves committing the same sins over and over again, even after we swear we’ll never commit them…
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Waiting For Wisdom – Keeping Faith During Hard Times
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“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself…
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Going All-In For Recovery
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One of the most detrimental things an addict / alcoholic can do to hinder their recovery is to believe the world’s view that their problem is an external one – that if only they’d quit drinking or drugging they’d be restored, good as new. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The belief that alcohol /…
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The Neglected Lover – A Love Poem About Self Love and Loving Yourself
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Sometimes it is easy to love your neighbor, but much more difficult to have self love. Self loathing and self-hatred are real problems for some people. You would never treat others or hold them to the same standards as you do yourself, so why do you keep doing it? You’re just as deserving of love as…
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Prayer For Guidance – How To Make Hard Decisions and Choices
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There are no guarantees in life. And in a sense, I guess that’s what makes it so beautiful. What satisfaction and joy would come out of living if we already knew exactly how our lives would go? But on the other side of the coin, hard decisions and choices can be downright scary and stressful…
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Christian Poem About the Parable of the Sower
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“And others are the ones sown among the thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.” Words of Jesus From the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:18-19) I believe “the…
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The Problem With Pain – A Poem
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The problem with pain is its ability to cast a spell over us, convincing us it’ll last forever. The weakest mind can handle temporary havoc, but when faced with a future filled with nothing but misery, we all become broken – lost, scared, and uncertain about how we’re going to make it through another day.…
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Sweeping Up the Past – A Poem
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Sweeping up the shattered shards of old, unfulfilled dreams, He smiled, Knowing that what he’d been searching for Had stood right in front of him all along – He’d just needed the courage To reach out and grasp it, To release his grip on the past, Open up his hands, And let it shatter upon…
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Poem about Surrendering and Submission to God
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How to Fight A Battle You Can’t Win – Poem about Surrendering and Submission to GodThe world stands -tempting and taunting.Your inhibition weak -restless and yawning,ready to wake and welcome desire,to add fuel to this fireyou’ve fought so hard to contain.But instead of fighting a battle you can’t winyou stop, slow it down, and simply…
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