Hello! This is one of my first time posting here. I will have 5 years of sobriety on December 22. I just wanted to share a poem I wrote that is based on my life.

At sixteen I was a runaway, didn't care about that day or another day. Only thing on my mind was to get away. Was getting into trouble living like a rebel. Never chasin the devil but he found me. Paralyzed to feelings he devoured me. Absent from reality I couldn't think. My mind was filled with darkness and he broke me free. In a way where my conscience was diminishing. Surviving...