Every addiction is like
a different branch of a tree.
Which one could yours be?
Work longer hours
and ignore as the labour all your energy devours,
until you collapse from exhaustion?
Internet,
just to feel the slightest connection
to the real world?
Food
that provides you with comfort
and for a while, leaves you feeling good?
Gambling
and the overwhelming feeling of winning something
for the first time in your life?
Notice your bank balance drop,
but don't let the satisfying feeling stop.
Alcohol and drugs
replace hugs—
hugs that you never got;
the void you filled with the smoking of pot.
Branches of addiction
with common roots
burried deep in fertile soil,
allowing it to develop.
Roots of abandonment and abuse,
anger, fear and shame
and joining the neglect your feelings game
anchors your addictions.
Cut the branches,
then watch them grow back to do their mocking dances
in the wind.
Focus on the soil and roots,
then see the addictions wither
away
under big boots
of rehabilitation and hope.
