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Meter Mischa
I was limitless in my Addictions, craving quick fixes, making poor choices, destructive cycles. Looking outside in, forgetting my sins, Replaying again, illness laid within, Forgot ends, begin. Stigma suffocates, cliché made mistakes, Faded glamour breaks, Crotchet formed prisons, coloured blocks, tick tock. Lockdowns in local, Boyfriends my focal, sick from inside out, full of…
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Christmas Fear
Christmas comes but once a year, instead of cheer, I’m full of fear, I shed a tear on Boxing Day as I share my feelings, dealing with overwhelming thoughts of guilt. I don’t enjoy family or group dynamics, triggers tantalising my unhealthy coping mechanisms, a prism within colloquialism. So I chose to keep myself safe…
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Control
A promenade of equestrian driven soliloquays, Pinnacles my achilles hill, Rendered rasps, I grasp at people’s perceptions, living in their deceptions. These men have been removed, soothed to prove I don’t need to live upto anyone’s ideals, making a meal out of disadvantages, I invoke and soak in the rhythm of ‘that folk ain’t my…
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The Papparazzi’s Daughter became a Poet
The Papparazzi’s Daughter became a Poet, Using her innate Camera to scan words from Samsung Notes, She dotes on her Deceased Dad, on a feather he floats. His images caused chaos on several occasions, yet the ones she remembers most paid for her very existence. A self taught Photographer, his colour blindness led to interesting…
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The Ex
A cantankerous body of souls folds pleats into my nighttime sheets, Convalescence crepes from the nape of my neck to the tips of my toes, curling as my subconscious transcends me into another world, where Exes play the lead as the story unfolds. I’m trying to make sense of the jumbled puzzle upon awakening, forsaking…
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A Bridge to Normal Living
“A bridge to normal living” say the 12 step Fellowships……but what is normal? The further I dig, the more I see, the more I see, the less I trust such shallow ideologues. Like a fog clearing the way, I’m in total dismay at the amount of people with attachment issues, scarred tissues worn on the…
Highlights
A combination of achievements, captured Spoken Word performances, and other Recovery related pics x
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