Recovery Poems

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The road trip of recovery 

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Recovery is like a road trip

With ups and downs 

And the occasional stop 

Sometimes even you have to restart 

Because you forgot something

Something back at the start 

Recovery may be hard 

But it's worth it 

Just like every good road trip 

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Recovery 

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Recovery is hard 

Self harm is hard 

Choosing to get better is tough 

Letting the dark win is tough 

Accepting you don't have to be sad is difficult 

Always being sad is difficult 

Choose your battle 

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The choice 

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Recovery is a choice 

A hard one at that

It took me years 

So many years 

To decide that I needed to recover 

Because that sadness 

That emptiness 

Was starting to feel like home 

But I knew it wasn't good 

I knew I should stop

And one day I did 

One day I decided recovery was the right choice 

So that's what I did 

I recovered. 

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Poems 

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Poems made me love life again 

The simple joy of writing 

Of putting my words

My thoughts

Onto a page 

In any format I wanted 

In any way I desired 

It was so freeing 

So joyous 

And it made me feel alive again 

And it made me feel in control again