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
24th Sep 2023 2:45pm
24th Sep 2023 2:45pm
Again
The chase is over
The end is here
I've been caught
Let me be clear
Now I wake the day after
Knowing all has changed
A prevailing sadness
Washes over me and drips from my veins
Regret runs through my mind
Disgusted hate for myself
I must've been flying blind
And crash landed into hell
I tried...
Again
And I'll try...
Again
The end is here
I've been caught
Let me be clear
Now I wake the day after
Knowing all has changed
A prevailing sadness
Washes over me and drips from my veins
Regret runs through my mind
Disgusted hate for myself
I must've been flying blind
And crash landed into hell
I tried...
Again
And I'll try...
Again
#depression
#LifeStruggles
#addiction
#weakness
#vulnerability
65 reads
6 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
23rd Sep 2023 3:01pm
23rd Sep 2023 3:01pm
Lost angel
Time kills but memories live eternal
Time fails and memories always fade
When I first saw you
A blazing angel in summer's night
You were lost among the mortals
Craving to be graced by your light
And when I speak
To you tonight
Bless me with
Your flaming sight
You see me bleed
Renew me with God's speed
Time heals but memories live eternal
Time fails and memories always fade
Last time that I saw you
Fading into autumn's night
Freezing in the chilling rain
Wishing to conjure back your...
Time fails and memories always fade
When I first saw you
A blazing angel in summer's night
You were lost among the mortals
Craving to be graced by your light
And when I speak
To you tonight
Bless me with
Your flaming sight
You see me bleed
Renew me with God's speed
Time heals but memories live eternal
Time fails and memories always fade
Last time that I saw you
Fading into autumn's night
Freezing in the chilling rain
Wishing to conjure back your...
#sadness
#depression
#loneliness
#bipolar
#addiction
66 reads
3 Comments
Anxiety
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2023 6:16am
22nd Sep 2023 6:16am
I am
I am an alcoholic
I am an addict
In every possible way
I do not know how to live in moderation, I binge and abuse anything and everything
I do not know how to breathe in moderation, my therapist said that’s a panic attack.
I buy a bag or bottle/ whatever is available I’m not picky, it ends up being 8 grams in 3 days, 8 bottle in 3 days
I crash my car
I avoid getting a dui
I wake up wanting to go to rehab but never go to rehab it’s Father’s Day next week and it would break his heart my...
I am an addict
In every possible way
I do not know how to live in moderation, I binge and abuse anything and everything
I do not know how to breathe in moderation, my therapist said that’s a panic attack.
I buy a bag or bottle/ whatever is available I’m not picky, it ends up being 8 grams in 3 days, 8 bottle in 3 days
I crash my car
I avoid getting a dui
I wake up wanting to go to rehab but never go to rehab it’s Father’s Day next week and it would break his heart my...
#SelfHarm
#drugs
#addiction
#illness
#MentalHealth
45 reads
0 Comments
Connotation
Poem Published
18th Sep 2023 2:05pm
18th Sep 2023 2:05pm
Prescription Provisions
Prescription provisions.
Instinctive decision.
Encrypted distinction.
Convicted suspicion.
Exquisite enrichment.
Religious nutrition.
Holistic description.
Intrinsic addition.
Elicit volition.
Explicit depiction.
Divisive commitment.
Delinquent beginning.
Specific enlistment.
Contingent dominion.
Illicit omission.
Implicit emissions.
Eclipsing opinion.
Commission envisioned.
Indignant division.
Dismissive derision.
Predicted position.
Addicted condition. ...
Instinctive decision.
Encrypted distinction.
Convicted suspicion.
Exquisite enrichment.
Religious nutrition.
Holistic description.
Intrinsic addition.
Elicit volition.
Explicit depiction.
Divisive commitment.
Delinquent beginning.
Specific enlistment.
Contingent dominion.
Illicit omission.
Implicit emissions.
Eclipsing opinion.
Commission envisioned.
Indignant division.
Dismissive derision.
Predicted position.
Addicted condition. ...
#identity
#drugs
#rhyming
#addiction
#support
67 reads
2 Comments
AveryPineapple
Dan A
Dan A
Poem Published
18th Sep 2023 6:30am
18th Sep 2023 6:30am
Drowning in Blue Light
Day after day
Night after night
When I'm happy
When I'm sad
Especially when I'm sad
It's the easiest thing in the world, one click
Dopamine
Or it used to be
Ever growing desire met with ever diminishing pleasure
It is the biggest, most collaborative, most wonderful thing we have ever made as a species
I am using It right now
And probably will for the rest of the night
And into the morning
Click
It's on my computer
It's on my phone
It's what I seek when I need distraction
But how can I...
Night after night
When I'm happy
When I'm sad
Especially when I'm sad
It's the easiest thing in the world, one click
Dopamine
Or it used to be
Ever growing desire met with ever diminishing pleasure
It is the biggest, most collaborative, most wonderful thing we have ever made as a species
I am using It right now
And probably will for the rest of the night
And into the morning
Click
It's on my computer
It's on my phone
It's what I seek when I need distraction
But how can I...
#technology
#addiction
52 reads
0 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
15th Sep 2023 3:23am
15th Sep 2023 3:23am
THE REALITY OF SOMEONE'S LIFE
Hello there it's me again🙏📿🪷 the shaman 👁️👁️ I just wanted to share something important with you🤔...I wanna talk about something different for a change🤨yeah some of you out, there yes somewhere in another world less traveled in the underground of the underbelly of society🙈🙉🙊...I wanna see how many of us have a family member or a friend. WHO has falling through the cracks of society, yet caught up in a way different then we could ever dream🤨 FOR I'm talking about drugs and alcohol and cocaine...
#depression
#addiction
#MentalHealth
#nightmares
#StreamOfConsciousness
96 reads
4 Comments
Timagination
Poem Published
14th Sep 2023 2:40pm
14th Sep 2023 2:40pm
The girl on the train
looking out the window
towns rolled by one after the other
the weather dark and grey
people got on and off
nothing out of the ordinary
then the doors opened and she got on with her boyfriend
i'm guessing they were in their 40's
she wobbled chaotically to her seat with him following
he looked concerned
a few minutes later his voice came through amid the
noise of the train rolling down the tracks
"it's only three stations away tammy"
"tammy!" (snap of his fingers...
towns rolled by one after the other
the weather dark and grey
people got on and off
nothing out of the ordinary
then the doors opened and she got on with her boyfriend
i'm guessing they were in their 40's
she wobbled chaotically to her seat with him following
he looked concerned
a few minutes later his voice came through amid the
noise of the train rolling down the tracks
"it's only three stations away tammy"
"tammy!" (snap of his fingers...
#regret
#death
#addiction
98 reads
12 Comments
Kaden_Malis
Kaden Malis
Kaden Malis
Poem Published
13th Sep 2023 6:15pm
13th Sep 2023 6:15pm
Found
I was running away
Searching for a meaning
Lost myself along the way
Trying to mask my feelings
So close to Hell
I got blisters on my feet
My soul was for sale
Facing addictions I just couldn't beat
Holding my young son
Wasted, I looked into his innocent eyes
Wondering why I would run
So, I held him close and began to cry
God, please help me not to hide
I don't want to be lost, but found
I set that bottle aside along with my pride
And prayed for God to be my guide
He surrounded me with...
Searching for a meaning
Lost myself along the way
Trying to mask my feelings
So close to Hell
I got blisters on my feet
My soul was for sale
Facing addictions I just couldn't beat
Holding my young son
Wasted, I looked into his innocent eyes
Wondering why I would run
So, I held him close and began to cry
God, please help me not to hide
I don't want to be lost, but found
I set that bottle aside along with my pride
And prayed for God to be my guide
He surrounded me with...
#God
#faith
#spiritual
#alcohol
#addiction
88 reads
2 Comments
KrystalG
Poem Published
13th Sep 2023 3:24pm
13th Sep 2023 3:24pm
About Aaron
I am so angry with you.
Tension, heightened, affliction.
What am I to do?
You caused this addiction.
Craving to release these fumes,
I am so angry with you.
External calm.
Internal suffering...
What am I to do?
Left me wondering why.
Wandering mind, feeling so blind...
I am so angry with you.
Stepped on, treated like dirt.
Taking a step back or two.
What am I to do?
I said we're through...
Do I mean what I say??
I am so angry with you.
What am I to do?
Tension, heightened, affliction.
What am I to do?
You caused this addiction.
Craving to release these fumes,
I am so angry with you.
External calm.
Internal suffering...
What am I to do?
Left me wondering why.
Wandering mind, feeling so blind...
I am so angry with you.
Stepped on, treated like dirt.
Taking a step back or two.
What am I to do?
I said we're through...
Do I mean what I say??
I am so angry with you.
What am I to do?
#sadness
#anxiety
#dark
#addiction
#suffering
62 reads
2 Comments
BITS
Poem Published
10th Sep 2023 9:39am
10th Sep 2023 9:39am
Old Friend
Hello old friend it’s been a while since we danced,
Since you played the pied piper and I followed entranced,
It’s been a while since you pulsed your dark beat in my veins,
Since you whispered instructions,
Since you pulled on the reins.
Your seduction, I’ll admit, it’s hard to decline,
You were electricity in my soul, you were fire in my mind.
But I remember the hurt, the pain and the loss,
Your friendship burns, I’m still paying the cost.
And that’s not to say that we didn’t get along,
Truth be told, part of me died when I...
Since you played the pied piper and I followed entranced,
It’s been a while since you pulsed your dark beat in my veins,
Since you whispered instructions,
Since you pulled on the reins.
Your seduction, I’ll admit, it’s hard to decline,
You were electricity in my soul, you were fire in my mind.
But I remember the hurt, the pain and the loss,
Your friendship burns, I’m still paying the cost.
And that’s not to say that we didn’t get along,
Truth be told, part of me died when I...
#hope
#alcohol
#addiction #nostalgia
#addiction #nostalgia
102 reads
2 Comments
ds3371
david spears
david spears
Poem Published
8th Sep 2023 1:09am
8th Sep 2023 1:09am
The Ransom of the soul from speed freaks with a sex addiction
#sex
#LifeStruggles
#addiction
58 reads
2 Comments
Bricoleur
Poem Published
7th Sep 2023 9:27pm
7th Sep 2023 9:27pm
Disguised Lights - III
I haven’t seen in months, months
What the rest of the world calls
The Sun.
Strange, tainted chemicals in my brain
Hardwired, feeds an image of—
What scientific filament
Meanders trapped in
A little glass bowl
With a flick of a switch
Turns day into day
Fakes night into day
And I’m happy as a drone
If only until the wear of flight
—the Sun.
I dare not leave by decree of my
Homemade devil. So, I haven’t seen
In months, months
(Other than magic of a filament) ...
What the rest of the world calls
The Sun.
Strange, tainted chemicals in my brain
Hardwired, feeds an image of—
What scientific filament
Meanders trapped in
A little glass bowl
With a flick of a switch
Turns day into day
Fakes night into day
And I’m happy as a drone
If only until the wear of flight
—the Sun.
I dare not leave by decree of my
Homemade devil. So, I haven’t seen
In months, months
(Other than magic of a filament) ...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness
#dark
#addiction
80 reads
1 Comment
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