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.
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
Today 00:26am
Today 00:26am
Surroundings
Wasting away
Decaying into the
Decadence
Around me
Hopelessly despondent
Laguishing for
Deliverance
Before me
Artfully deceived
By devouring
Disease
Inside me
Decaying into the
Decadence
Around me
Hopelessly despondent
Laguishing for
Deliverance
Before me
Artfully deceived
By devouring
Disease
Inside me
#dark
#alcohol
#drugs
#addiction
#despair
24 reads
4 Comments
ashleejulia
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:48pm
Yesterday 9:48pm
Change or the Same
When waves run to the sand
When groupies cling to the band
The energy keeps growing
My anxiety is showing
This is all the same
I’ve played this little game
Creating a mess in my head
What was the last thing I said
I’m mixing myself up
My mind has become corrupt
Lets hope this time is different
I am praying this is something magnificent
When groupies cling to the band
The energy keeps growing
My anxiety is showing
This is all the same
I’ve played this little game
Creating a mess in my head
What was the last thing I said
I’m mixing myself up
My mind has become corrupt
Lets hope this time is different
I am praying this is something magnificent
#conflict
#alcohol
#addiction
#confusion
#FeelingLost
36 reads
0 Comments
GabyCamargoMiaw
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:55pm
Yesterday 4:55pm
Demon #2
#food
#addiction
#EatingDisorder
15 reads
0 Comments
LunaGreyhawk
Poem Published
Yesterday 5:38am
Yesterday 5:38am
The Cost of Love at Any Cost
Those who say
‘all is fair in love and war’
only do because
they’ve never gone to war
with death for you,
and learned for themselves
the cost of winning love
at any cost
‘all is fair in love and war’
only do because
they’ve never gone to war
with death for you,
and learned for themselves
the cost of winning love
at any cost
#depression
#addiction
#MentalHealth
14 reads
8 Comments
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
26th Jan 2022 12:57pm
26th Jan 2022 12:57pm
Come Back
The devil takes me apart
Piece by piece
Licking my essence from his fingers
And staring me down
With a horrid gleeful smile.
Gone is another piece of who I was;
Where the hell am I going now?
Piece by piece
Licking my essence from his fingers
And staring me down
With a horrid gleeful smile.
Gone is another piece of who I was;
Where the hell am I going now?
#addiction
32 reads
1 Comment
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
26th Jan 2022 12:56pm
26th Jan 2022 12:56pm
doesn't rhyme and doesn't reason (I'm Tired)
It starts with losing my appetite.
Nothing sounds good,
And the state of my kitchen sink and fridge
Is sad enough from neglect already.
My mouth grows cotton mouthed,
My throat hurts, and I cough more
From chain-smoking cigarettes
Until I run out, even if they're all I taste.
Crowds feel like suffocation,
And every conversation is a strain.
I have nothing to talk about,
And if I do, it's a thought of regret.
I see hands reaching out for me
Willing to be the one I can lean on,
But for some reason...
Nothing sounds good,
And the state of my kitchen sink and fridge
Is sad enough from neglect already.
My mouth grows cotton mouthed,
My throat hurts, and I cough more
From chain-smoking cigarettes
Until I run out, even if they're all I taste.
Crowds feel like suffocation,
And every conversation is a strain.
I have nothing to talk about,
And if I do, it's a thought of regret.
I see hands reaching out for me
Willing to be the one I can lean on,
But for some reason...
#SelfHarm
#drugs
#addiction
#support
#SelfWorth
39 reads
1 Comment
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
26th Jan 2022 3:29am
26th Jan 2022 3:29am
Through Your Eyes
I imagine the endless questions
that have no satisfactory answer
when days turn into weeks
that you've not seen my face.
I see the look of hurt on your face,
the crestfallen expression
that takes over your pretty face
as excitement fades to disappointment
when I am late to show
or never show at all.
I imagine the chemicals in your brain
wiring themselves into a rollercoaster
of hopes up and fulfillment,
descending into a chasm of emptiness
and despair become all too familiar,
when the pattern I've...
that have no satisfactory answer
when days turn into weeks
that you've not seen my face.
I see the look of hurt on your face,
the crestfallen expression
that takes over your pretty face
as excitement fades to disappointment
when I am late to show
or never show at all.
I imagine the chemicals in your brain
wiring themselves into a rollercoaster
of hopes up and fulfillment,
descending into a chasm of emptiness
and despair become all too familiar,
when the pattern I've...
#love
#motherhood
#faith
#addiction
#daughter
37 reads
1 Comment
Spanker
Poem Published
25th Jan 2022 3:08am
25th Jan 2022 3:08am
Weights & Measures
There are people
Dragging anvils around
On ropes & chains
Attached to necks
They make a most ungodly sound
As the anvils bounce
And bang
Into this & that
And through the dirt they go
Making lines & furrows
Of the sods
Like ploughs
And the heaviness
Weighs them down
And holds them back
Today & tomorrow
Sometimes they tangle
With other draggers & pullers
Chains & ropes & anvils
Through the dirt & snow
Up & down the hills &...
Dragging anvils around
On ropes & chains
Attached to necks
They make a most ungodly sound
As the anvils bounce
And bang
Into this & that
And through the dirt they go
Making lines & furrows
Of the sods
Like ploughs
And the heaviness
Weighs them down
And holds them back
Today & tomorrow
Sometimes they tangle
With other draggers & pullers
Chains & ropes & anvils
Through the dirt & snow
Up & down the hills &...
#addiction
30 reads
0 Comments
Whyme
Poem Published
22nd Jan 2022 11:00pm
22nd Jan 2022 11:00pm
South by Dead South
I feel it now
It slithers around inside
Smokey cloud
Blocking
All neural netways
I am soaring
In my new found state
Ten floors up
I don't feel the cold
I see the geese
Heading south for the heat
I too can fly
Wait for me little birdies
As I spread my arms
And I too head south
Ten floors down
It slithers around inside
Smokey cloud
Blocking
All neural netways
I am soaring
In my new found state
Ten floors up
I don't feel the cold
I see the geese
Heading south for the heat
I too can fly
Wait for me little birdies
As I spread my arms
And I too head south
Ten floors down
#addiction
#MentalHealth
#nightmares #apathy
#nightmares #apathy
65 reads
2 Comments
zinnzinn
ZINNNNIZ
ZINNNNIZ
Poem Published
20th Jan 2022 9:57am
20th Jan 2022 9:57am
Relabeled The Unstable Fable
It stopped in mid thought as I awakened alive and unwell
My first after thought was her skin I can taste and still smell
left so damn distraught
in my head I'm out fought
with what was I thinking has now been out thought and curtailed
so what does my mind
have in mind the next time
for my dream thoughts to spot and unveil
a conundrum is the hard knock dreams with my blocked thoughts when unblocked will unlock the paradox
Blocked thoughts that are low-key stocked and locked from the shock with my dreams in...
My first after thought was her skin I can taste and still smell
left so damn distraught
in my head I'm out fought
with what was I thinking has now been out thought and curtailed
so what does my mind
have in mind the next time
for my dream thoughts to spot and unveil
a conundrum is the hard knock dreams with my blocked thoughts when unblocked will unlock the paradox
Blocked thoughts that are low-key stocked and locked from the shock with my dreams in...
#murder
#dreams
#fiction
#addiction
#MentalHealth
86 reads
0 Comments
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
19th Jan 2022 1:10pm
19th Jan 2022 1:10pm
choking on every word I ever said
A moment of horror
Is realizing one of my biggest idols
In younger years
Did her makeup with the infamous "raccoon eyes" for a reason:
The same reason she was so skinny
And the same reason her music
Was so deliciously dark.
The poems I read with my young eyes
Were those of junkies,
And I saw nothing but a beautifully broken soul
Bleeding into their words
With such intensity
That it snatched me onto the page with it.
Now the only person I feel comfortable showing my dark side to
Is one of the same ...
Is realizing one of my biggest idols
In younger years
Did her makeup with the infamous "raccoon eyes" for a reason:
The same reason she was so skinny
And the same reason her music
Was so deliciously dark.
The poems I read with my young eyes
Were those of junkies,
And I saw nothing but a beautifully broken soul
Bleeding into their words
With such intensity
That it snatched me onto the page with it.
Now the only person I feel comfortable showing my dark side to
Is one of the same ...
#addiction
69 reads
4 Comments
KittyFromHell
Poem Published
19th Jan 2022 5:05am
19th Jan 2022 5:05am
Late For Work
I must remember the jolt of sitting straight up in bed
Frantically grabbing at my phone for the time
With panic caught in my throat
And jumpstarting my heartbeat to send me tumbling to the floor...
Fuck, fuck, FUCK!
Missed calls flash across my screen
One by one in a persistent string
With previews of unread messages
I am too afraid to open and respond to
While I tear around the room like a maniac
Tears welling up as I inevitably smack the ground
Back from my trip to higher planes
And the earth around me seems to...
Frantically grabbing at my phone for the time
With panic caught in my throat
And jumpstarting my heartbeat to send me tumbling to the floor...
Fuck, fuck, FUCK!
Missed calls flash across my screen
One by one in a persistent string
With previews of unread messages
I am too afraid to open and respond to
While I tear around the room like a maniac
Tears welling up as I inevitably smack the ground
Back from my trip to higher planes
And the earth around me seems to...
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
#addiction
#LifeCycle
#responsibility
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1 Comment
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