I am on day 6 of the first 30 questions, I would have never believed that I would actually feel a physical craving, lots of emotions kicking around and wierd dreams, I do know deep down inside that this is the right path and I am relying on God to help me through this... I wrote down a few lines yesterday to help get some of the emotions out, hope you dont mind if I share them with you...
Dark clouds roll by, above my head
When has it been any different?
For so long this has been the way
That it has become the expected.
Lost within a place that sheds no light
A shroud of sickness drapes on me
A place where hope does not live
My illness touches other people.
Am I forever to be lost?
Never to feel love?
Never to be loved?
Blind to the One who will always love me.
The crushing blow of heartbreak
Pain intense that I can taste
Should signal my end
Extinguish my soul
From that place there is a spark
A flash of light far away
It catches my eye, dare I?
Hope?
He is there
He has always been there
Waiting for me to see Him
Waiting for me to ask Him
His love light fills me
Eases my pain
Sends His messengers to guide me
Bringing His love within them
Dare I hope?
To be in the light
The place He wants me to be
Whole, free and with Him.
I do dare.
I do hope.
I do love.
He is in me.
White clouds roll by, above my head
When has it been any different?
For so long this has been the way
That it has become the expected.
Poem
mkandy ...your poem describes the withdrawl experience so well...!
"The crushing blow of heartbreak
Pain intense that I can taste
Should signal my end
Extinguish my soul
From that place there is a spark
A flash of light far away
It catches my eye, dare I?
Hope?"
These lines are a real gift to you and us ..in my experience the light is in the pain ....for months i walked towards it in the darkenss not knowing if I would ever get there ...in the end it drew me in faster than I could ever have imagined!! ...Go well friend!
Thy Will not Mine be done.
I really do appreciate your
I really do appreciate your inspiring comments, I am on Q 12 now, have managed to keep within my agreed bottom lines, apart from the now diminishing cravings I am feeling very focused (I guess the purpose of the questions) One thing I am very grateful for is already finding my higher power in "another" 12 step fellowship I have been in for a good few years, so I know it does work :-) I havent prayed this hard in years, this has been a great comfort to me.
I really do thank you for your messsage of hope for a future without the active symptoms of the addiction.
Andy
thank you for your poem - it
thank you for your poem - it was quite uncanny coming across it on my screen as it put me back in time almost 2 years now when i was in my 30 questions and wrote lots of poems in a similar vein on my blog site! i can relate to your feelings, the craving, the bleak darkness, the hopelessness and simultaneously the hope - and the creative pressure valve of your poetry!! And i can report that 2 years on life is beautiful and filled with love and all that pain felt through and no longer 'live' in me!
all the best for your journey and keep on doing the good work - it does get sooo much better!!:-)