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Dirty Drinker
Dirty drinker
Street scum
Tangled hair
Stumbling out alone
Until she finds another home
Uses them like garbage cans
After serviced, onto the next
I detest this face of stone
So coldly gray and wrinkled
Shriveled like she’s out of season
History has marked her
Like a page crinkled
Those sapphire eyes, glazed
She doesn’t want me
No..
She wants love
But
I can’t give what I never received
My dainty hands reject the sins
That dirty drinking hands seek hungrily
I’m sorry, dirty drinker
I’ll love you when you’re ready
To clean up, kick the door
And be the woman you should be
Street scum
Tangled hair
Stumbling out alone
Until she finds another home
Uses them like garbage cans
After serviced, onto the next
I detest this face of stone
So coldly gray and wrinkled
Shriveled like she’s out of season
History has marked her
Like a page crinkled
Those sapphire eyes, glazed
She doesn’t want me
No..
She wants love
But
I can’t give what I never received
My dainty hands reject the sins
That dirty drinking hands seek hungrily
I’m sorry, dirty drinker
I’ll love you when you’re ready
To clean up, kick the door
And be the woman you should be
Published 18th Apr 2021
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18th Apr 2021 8:30pm
Addictions can be devastating. It is difficult to love the addict when what they crave most is love, but are they are seeking where it is most elusive. Well done, poet.🙏
18th Apr 2021 10:58pm
It's the unabashed heartbreaking honesty that tears at me, as a reader. I ache within each word of your piece. KP is so correct in acknowledging the adulterated pain of dealing with an addict, their addiction and it's /their fallout. I am hopeful your write alleviated some of those intense hurtful feelings and helped as a catharsis in some small way.
This is truly a terrifically brave and utterly beautiful in your crafting of a poem.
Well done, indeed.. dear poet 🙏🏻
Much love and enormous respect,
🌹
-B
This is truly a terrifically brave and utterly beautiful in your crafting of a poem.
Well done, indeed.. dear poet 🙏🏻
Much love and enormous respect,
🌹
-B
20th Apr 2021 7:12am
"History has marked her
Like a page crinkled"
I love this. I enjoyed reading this.
Like a page crinkled"
I love this. I enjoyed reading this.
23rd Apr 2021 11:08pm
Damn powerful write setting boundaries! You have more love than you realize and demonstrated it perfectly here.
I am sorry I have not made it over here sooner, but I have been reading your offerings in the comp and thinking, Damn. Stellar entry.
I am sorry I have not made it over here sooner, but I have been reading your offerings in the comp and thinking, Damn. Stellar entry.
