Recovery Poems - Poems about Recovery

For so very long They played an insipid yet beguiling song A sweet lullaby that wasn't so sweet Deleterious lyrics and rhythms rocked you into a slumbering sleep Closed eye in darkness, away from all light Asleep now, inert and...Read the rest...

Hardest thing to rest Is the tiredness in the mind A daily torture....Read the rest...

The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle as one fairly long run on sentence unwittingly made locally famous courtesy residents here at Highland Manor Apartments as first one foot and then the other painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged across the cement...Read the rest...

The dark spill muddied my canvas: Made its mess, dislocated light And thoughtful lines to the edges While it claimed the center for spite. It seemed like all was wrecked. The time I'd worked nightly To...Read the rest...

Today, upon this stage, an actress must Perform a tale of love and woe. Many roles in past, she played and executed well But in the hushed embrace of theater's din light The actress is tasked with...Read the rest...

You broke my love, my loyalty, my confidence and mind, You left invisible wounds, broken, trauma and anxiety, You told me I was imagining all the things you did, that it was my fault, I was to...Read the rest...

Awakened "Silence fills all the spaces between the soft flutter of fragile butterfly wings. There one second and then gone, the faint breeze in a syncopated song. As twilight gatherers...Read the rest...

You were believed. 8 years apart, just for a start. I got a belt but you were our mothers heart. You left a taste oh so sweet and me just oh so tart. The black sheep,...Read the rest...

He came to live his life in peace To put all his troubles at ease But like a garbage, he was shunned Almost short of being gunned He didn't even know why They even wanted...Read the rest...

My voice is filled with broken tremors, As I describe the layers of my pain. Each breath blows out the bitter emptiness, And I hear myself going insane. I interact with demons I battle, And I force...Read the rest...

Humor is a restorative much better than sleep Please tell me a joke When you snore, I weep ...Read the rest...

Just another long afternoon Of another long long day Mind numbing weariness That just won’t go away. My eyelids are heavy I just want to sleep For once no need To be counting sheep The cat is staring at me In almost hypnotic...Read the rest...

They dubbed him Sticks at Epoch's tip when hitherto matter none neither you of matter grasped that awed amassed was all he cared and none who'd dare his love of sticks made jokes he exists baton they'd be, had...Read the rest...

Learning to let go of everything I have ever known. In spite of all the love I have shown, I still felt alone. It is only now I see, I must let go how I used to...Read the rest...

A definite air permeates When in the walls of my room Projected productivity is it? Or rather the reflection of what those expect of me Identity found... lost, through my grasp Hard to dicier or fully know Craving change, something swift Yet...Read the rest...