Poems about Addiction
#addiction
Poetry about addiction to drugs or alcohol, and the effects of addiction on friends, family and relationships. Here you'll find poems tackling addiction to a range of behaviours and substances including smoking, drinking, prescription drugs and recreational drugs.
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:59am
Yesterday 8:59am
Purging
My heart knocks ceremoniously
With blood thudding in my eardrums.
The devil writhes in my body
To the sound of razor scraping glass.
A man's touch ablaze on my skin
Twists me into violent ventures
Leaping into a lonely love
Turning me inward to the darkest desires
They tear me open and I bleed
I bleed out my heart, my soul, because of the truth.
Sweet pain
Sweet, heavenly pain!
"Yes, Master" I submit to my demons in vain
Till my blood runs out and I have no more
No more love left in my heart
Only emptiness
So...
With blood thudding in my eardrums.
The devil writhes in my body
To the sound of razor scraping glass.
A man's touch ablaze on my skin
Twists me into violent ventures
Leaping into a lonely love
Turning me inward to the darkest desires
They tear me open and I bleed
I bleed out my heart, my soul, because of the truth.
Sweet pain
Sweet, heavenly pain!
"Yes, Master" I submit to my demons in vain
Till my blood runs out and I have no more
No more love left in my heart
Only emptiness
So...
#rebirth
#addiction
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1 Comment
fieryangelsouljia
M6rr6g6n
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Poem Published
15th Sep 2021 7:40pm
15th Sep 2021 7:40pm
Underwater
Underwater
I wish I could see my face
beneath the surface
Not a reflection,
just looking for myself
drowned for a lack of affection-
or something like attention?
Wish I was less of a mess
but I can't stop rolling...
A turmoil of waves crashing
against these stones
I was looking for a way to feel
anything but the cold
and I'm warm now...
I wanted a way to feel
just a way to feel
like I'm above the water
Would I even care if I drowned?
Would everyone who held me,
who...
I wish I could see my face
beneath the surface
Not a reflection,
just looking for myself
drowned for a lack of affection-
or something like attention?
Wish I was less of a mess
but I can't stop rolling...
A turmoil of waves crashing
against these stones
I was looking for a way to feel
anything but the cold
and I'm warm now...
I wanted a way to feel
just a way to feel
like I'm above the water
Would I even care if I drowned?
Would everyone who held me,
who...
#dark
#drugs
#addiction
#FeelingLost
#fear
15 reads
1 Comment
da_poetic-edifier
Damon
Damon
Poem Published
14th Sep 2021 11:48pm
14th Sep 2021 11:48pm
Other Side of The Rainbow
Is there a pot of gold on the other side
After enduring our storms along this ride
Will we hang glide with angelic wings
In paradise, where everyday is Spring
Seeing is believing so only time will tell
Sooner or later it'll be clearly revealed
Will we all be healed of mortal afflictions
And rehabbed from our sinful addictions
Receiving final prescription on judgement day
Able to stay in glory or abhorrently cast away
Or will we replay the game in a different form
As energy dissipates & generates a new norm
After enduring our storms along this ride
Will we hang glide with angelic wings
In paradise, where everyday is Spring
Seeing is believing so only time will tell
Sooner or later it'll be clearly revealed
Will we all be healed of mortal afflictions
And rehabbed from our sinful addictions
Receiving final prescription on judgement day
Able to stay in glory or abhorrently cast away
Or will we replay the game in a different form
As energy dissipates & generates a new norm
#rainbow
#rebirth
#heaven
#addiction
#healing
16 reads
2 Comments
lunadeschacht
Poem Published
12th Sep 2021 6:01pm
12th Sep 2021 6:01pm
Life is an addiction
You see life, life is an addiction.
An often fatal affliction.
To any persistent condition.
The real trap medicine, with no prescription.
They claimed the powder would heal me.
But all I got was confliction.
I didn't get healed see, instead I got stuck with an addiction.
It got me cold.
No more covering from thick dark clouds creating snow and ice.
It doesn't matter cause no one has the guts to roll the dice.
You think now you see me,
but I got more tricks than fucking Houdini.
You think you got it?
Don't you...
An often fatal affliction.
To any persistent condition.
The real trap medicine, with no prescription.
They claimed the powder would heal me.
But all I got was confliction.
I didn't get healed see, instead I got stuck with an addiction.
It got me cold.
No more covering from thick dark clouds creating snow and ice.
It doesn't matter cause no one has the guts to roll the dice.
You think now you see me,
but I got more tricks than fucking Houdini.
You think you got it?
Don't you...
#drugs
#addiction
#fear
26 reads
4 Comments
Adelphina
Poem Published
12th Sep 2021 1:12am
12th Sep 2021 1:12am
Makeup City
Lashes dipped
and curled ready
for the town.
Black tar
surround eyes
almond brown
Eyelids sketched
with shimmer
and gold
Electric red
lips have a
permanent glow
The face
This place
Hey, lets head to
Makeup City
Where everything
is pretty
and cold
Foundation
flawless and smooth
Flashing lights
Mascara eyes
Electricity in
my stare
I feel a fever
coming on
Where everything
is pretty
and...
and curled ready
for the town.
Black tar
surround eyes
almond brown
Eyelids sketched
with shimmer
and gold
Electric red
lips have a
permanent glow
The face
This place
Hey, lets head to
Makeup City
Where everything
is pretty
and cold
Foundation
flawless and smooth
Flashing lights
Mascara eyes
Electricity in
my stare
I feel a fever
coming on
Where everything
is pretty
and...
#beauty
#addiction
#culture
35 reads
20 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Bumped 11th Sep 2021 9:09pm
14th Jul 2020 2:15am
14th Jul 2020 2:15am
Fine line
Well I saw you walking this way
A ghostly Spectre
With an angel face
You saw me in a horrid state
A fallen soldier
Who needed saved
But you can't save
What doesn't want to be saved
It's a fine line
Nothing you can do to change my mind
I'm feeling low and want to be high
Well I can't be
What I'm supposed to be
Your best bet
Is to stay away from me
Like out of date currency
Worth nothing to nobody
I walk a fine line
Never saw a cloud that was silver lined
I'm...
A ghostly Spectre
With an angel face
You saw me in a horrid state
A fallen soldier
Who needed saved
But you can't save
What doesn't want to be saved
It's a fine line
Nothing you can do to change my mind
I'm feeling low and want to be high
Well I can't be
What I'm supposed to be
Your best bet
Is to stay away from me
Like out of date currency
Worth nothing to nobody
I walk a fine line
Never saw a cloud that was silver lined
I'm...
#anxiety
#depression
#SelfHarm
#addiction
#MentalHealth
236 reads
2 Comments
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
11th Sep 2021 5:06am
11th Sep 2021 5:06am
The Little R that Can & Will
She ambles in stoned faced
A watery trail leaking from one eye
Quick nose check just to be sure
"Just get through today, I'll be fine,"
Mind on the final countdown
To what will either be the promised land
Or another 40 days of wilderness.
Redemption is the task at hand.
Repetitive affirmations to ground,
To stay present in the world before me.
Like the engine that could,
I'm chugga-lugging onward stubbornly.
The ghost of tweaker future visited.
She sat in my bean bag chair and cried.
Mourning the...
A watery trail leaking from one eye
Quick nose check just to be sure
"Just get through today, I'll be fine,"
Mind on the final countdown
To what will either be the promised land
Or another 40 days of wilderness.
Redemption is the task at hand.
Repetitive affirmations to ground,
To stay present in the world before me.
Like the engine that could,
I'm chugga-lugging onward stubbornly.
The ghost of tweaker future visited.
She sat in my bean bag chair and cried.
Mourning the...
#addiction
19 reads
2 Comments
Sonneteer
L Robinson
L Robinson
Poem Published
10th Sep 2021 9:21pm
10th Sep 2021 9:21pm
White
A can, some glass, drilled bolts with wool, the bong,
the cash, the phone, the call, the wait, the score,
the public stain, the forces of the law,
the users jut, eyed, through the urban throng.
The lash is key, brief seconds that belong
beyond the exhalation of the draw,
experience with but one fatal flaw,
once felt, the urge to replicate, lifelong.
Such use does not develop savoir-faire
nor altered states of mind which free compare.
The culture concentrates around the scene
with many shattered lives, unmourned, unseen.
The...
the cash, the phone, the call, the wait, the score,
the public stain, the forces of the law,
the users jut, eyed, through the urban throng.
The lash is key, brief seconds that belong
beyond the exhalation of the draw,
experience with but one fatal flaw,
once felt, the urge to replicate, lifelong.
Such use does not develop savoir-faire
nor altered states of mind which free compare.
The culture concentrates around the scene
with many shattered lives, unmourned, unseen.
The...
#drugs
#addiction
22 reads
0 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Bumped 10th Sep 2021 5:50pm
12th Jul 2020 12:50pm
12th Jul 2020 12:50pm
Wasting my breath
First one thing
And then another
Quit this now
Then find another
Gotta find a different way
To get me through the day
The sun shines now
But always turns gray
God, send your angels
To strike me down
Bury me under
The cold hard ground
I'll leave this world
For a better place
I can't stand anymore
Breaths to waste
And then another
Quit this now
Then find another
Gotta find a different way
To get me through the day
The sun shines now
But always turns gray
God, send your angels
To strike me down
Bury me under
The cold hard ground
I'll leave this world
For a better place
I can't stand anymore
Breaths to waste
#anxiety
#depression
#SelfHarm
#addiction
#MentalHealth
483 reads
10 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
9th Sep 2021 8:16pm
9th Sep 2021 8:16pm
cold
hurting ache in my soul
sinful need causes me pain
I cry then curl inward
I'm no good
I look at the bright eyed people
I want to be like that
damnation's game wicked revival
I'm different I know it
I wonder if it's obvious
this soul hiccup?
worship the whore
insidious need inside me
I feed it
I feel I have no choice
not enough dopamine to cope
my brain goes on the fritz
synapses misfiring leaves me reeling
I genuinely hurt
bare without covering
vulnerability overload
it's so...
sinful need causes me pain
I cry then curl inward
I'm no good
I look at the bright eyed people
I want to be like that
damnation's game wicked revival
I'm different I know it
I wonder if it's obvious
this soul hiccup?
worship the whore
insidious need inside me
I feed it
I feel I have no choice
not enough dopamine to cope
my brain goes on the fritz
synapses misfiring leaves me reeling
I genuinely hurt
bare without covering
vulnerability overload
it's so...
#addiction
45 reads
10 Comments
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
6th Sep 2021 6:35am
6th Sep 2021 6:35am
Addiction
It stole my ambition
It took away my smile
Whisked away with such ease
Such horrible grace and style
It aged my youthful skin
Made it gray and dull
It poisoned my heart
And put madness inside my skull.
It gave me the confidence
The eloquence I always lacked
I went higher and higher
Then the fall took it all back
I thought I could quit...
Break this dance with the devil
Just one more song, one more
Then I pirouette to another level.
There's no point in lying
Any longer...
It took away my smile
Whisked away with such ease
Such horrible grace and style
It aged my youthful skin
Made it gray and dull
It poisoned my heart
And put madness inside my skull.
It gave me the confidence
The eloquence I always lacked
I went higher and higher
Then the fall took it all back
I thought I could quit...
Break this dance with the devil
Just one more song, one more
Then I pirouette to another level.
There's no point in lying
Any longer...
#addiction
62 reads
3 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Bumped 5th Sep 2021 11:33am
10th Jul 2020 10:46am
10th Jul 2020 10:46am
Lucky few
Pierce the veil and pierce the skin
Slowly numb the pain within
Dancing lights, distorted sights
Caress your brain all through the night
Falling upward, standing down
Chased the rabbit into the ground
Lost at home, at home in space
Can't get out the bolted gate
Wake up she cried,
Your dreams have died!
All those you trusted, deceived and lied
Save yourself from this awful fate
The time is now, don't be late
Sat up in bed and saw the tubes
They say I was one of the lucky few
...
Slowly numb the pain within
Dancing lights, distorted sights
Caress your brain all through the night
Falling upward, standing down
Chased the rabbit into the ground
Lost at home, at home in space
Can't get out the bolted gate
Wake up she cried,
Your dreams have died!
All those you trusted, deceived and lied
Save yourself from this awful fate
The time is now, don't be late
Sat up in bed and saw the tubes
They say I was one of the lucky few
...
#anxiety
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#SelfHarm
#addiction
434 reads
7 Comments
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