All my life I have been guarding my heart. I built walls around it to…
Tag: recovery
Throughout Lycoming County, there are many people working hard to reenter the community after a…
I spent my whole life trying to run away from my feelings, my reality and…
I was completely powerless at the time of writing this poem. I had given up…
Growing up in an unstable and dysfunctional home, where my mother was the disciplinarian and…
Writing poetry has been an outlet of mine since I was in high school. Especially…
Eventually my drinking and using no longer masked the pain, guilt and shame I was…
My inspiration for this poem was the Carl E. Stotz statue, which represents the founder…
I will always remember my first meeting. The topic of the meeting was surrender. I…
I wrote this poem because for so long I couldn’t accept I had a problem…