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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2014-04-12 11:56 AM





Taking a pill today
to keep my additions at bay
My hands are shaking
and my stomach is quaking
I heeded them
when they said I hadn't needed them
They were just making me sleepy
I didn’t know they would keep me
from taking my addictions
In other directions
Like food
Which isn’t good
My diet’s a joke
It went up in smoke
My diabetes
has gone to hades
My failure to thrive
isn’t keeping me alive
I wallow in pasts of guilt and shame
and other emotions I cannot name
So I took a pill today
to make me feel okay
No more anxiety
driving me
to death


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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2014-04-12 12:02 PM


Oh, Lori, another poem on the sad side. I understand this, however, because I have been there, done that. Wishing you future comfort and peace.

~*~ Love is friendship set on fire. ~*~

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