Dear Addiction,

My enemy, my friend,
you have always been there
but when I was sad and lonely,
you didn’t really care.
You held me in my room,
in darkness and in fright
You held me like your hostage
and you never showed me light.

Your strangling presence always could take me away
I couldn’t seem to fight you ‘cuz I felt that I should pay
For the price of not believing
and there was no one I could trust
You came to preserve that for me,
it’s you that I disgust.

I always could count on you,
when life had brought me down
I falsely wore you in my head,
like a silver plated crown
When I tried to get away from you,
when life was just okay
You’d come along and reveal
your ugly head my way.

You helped me turn my pain inside,
where the lost and lonely go
You fed the hunger deep within,
that only addicts know.

This battle, ever constant,
had gone on for far too long
I did not like my eyes of death,
I needed to be strong
So I could take you on and win back
the battle of my fate
I broke your ghostly silence,
and shattered all the hate

Today I wrote a letter,
it was to say goodbye
To all the hurt and death you’ve caused,
to wasted days past by
I wrote to heal my soul and life
that I have yet to discover
And with the Spirit I have found
I know I can recover.

Goodbye

Angie M.