Recovery

My mind was lost and
my body violated
I was lost in the dark as
the demons just waited...

The heat from the sun warms my face
I close my eyes
Within the beauty of life
For just...

Inhale,

The eluding fragrances of daffodils,
they mask my face with simplistic arrays of...

You are not someone
You are a thing
A terrible thing
You change reality
You...

she controlled me,
made me blind

blin to the way things are supposed to be,

she made...

"I've stepped out of the shadows,
jumped off of that cliff!
I don't know where I'll land,...

"After all of this using,
is now said and done,
I realize I've just been filling the hole,...

"My outlook on life is starting to change.
I'm slowly feeling hope,
where there was once pure...

Buried beneath this junkyard

Beyond the rusted vehicles and appliances:

rickshaws filled...

"This place isn't as bad,
as it seems.
This be a land where you,
can manifest dreams...

"There is gratitude,
in everything I receive,
for if not for Jesus,
I would've died...

"I'm writing out,
my guilt and shame,
so I can keep this peace,
because the old me,...

Its grips like glue
It won't leave you
- It cannot be coughed away.
Or ,
Bought...

"I was always seeking,
I just didn't know what for,
then I started using drugs,
and...

In 2017, after five years of no information about my son's whereabouts, he was brought back to Australia....

She wakes from her slumber;
Heart racing, face clammy with sweat.
Is it the dreaded menopause...