EDGES MAGAZINE Issue

April 2000

 
"THIS PROJECT DOES NOT GIVE UP ON YOU"
The above words are spoken by Simon.
Simon has returned to our project. He got clean of drugs but then slipped back after 18 months. We detoxed him and got him ready for rehabilitation. However, the pressures of life got too much for him and he started using again.
Simon has returned to us much wiser and he is now clean of drugs again.At the moment we are helping plan a direction for his future life. He shares his poetry with us.

Addiction Trance

The Hypnotic Beats Close
Like A Close Fitting Glove,
Distraction,Reaction,
The Fruits of Addiction
Do Spare,
For Will I Ever Find True Love?
It Lies Deep Within,
To Try And Access It,
It's A Sin,
To Torture And Pain,
What Is There To Gain?
Leading Me In A Trance,
Can't Even Dance
Your Hold Is So Tight
Get Off
Let Me Be Filled With A Shining Light,
Filled With A Warm Glow,
Which Comes from Deep Down Below.

Backslide
Use For A Day
Little Backslide
Soon Turns Into An Endless Glide
Panic, Fear
Despairation Is Near
The Future What Does It Hold?
Until The Insanity Quells
Livin' In Personal Hell.

Alien Feelings
Sadness,Coming And Going,
The Pains Overflowing,
Through This Frustration I will Fight,
To Live A Life Filled With Light,
You Only Hold Me For As Long As I Chose,
The Only Battle I Have To Lose,
Feelings Alien To Me
Open A Whole NewWorld To See,
Painful Times – Confrontation of Self,
A Challenge For Me
To Get Out of The Self Infliction
I Know So Well,
A New Chapter In The Quest
To Live My Own Life
Instead of Being The Guest!

Shell Like
A 26 Year Old Shell
Inside A Child Living
In Personal Hell
Cruel And Kind
What Will I Find?
If I Can't Search Deep
Ain't Never Gonna Stand
On My Own 2 Feet.

The H Tree
My Life Means The World To Me
Too Young To Die
What Am I Doing
Burning The Heroin Tree
Part Time Bliss
Day At ATime
I'll Give It A Miss
Life Itself Can Be Cruel And Torn
Using A 1st Class Thorn
I Can Kill This Heroin Tree
I'll Try, Try, Try
Just Trust Me!

Pain Free Times?
Flicker And Flame
The Warmth You Bring
Makes Me Wanna Sing
Brittle And Cold
Just Like The Old
How Can You Define
HowYou'll Be Mine?
Glowing Light
Shine So Bright
Helps Me Forget
The Hurt,The Pain
Which Brought Me To My Knees
Engulf Me With Your Comforting Bliss
You Dance So Graciously
Hypnotic And Endlessly
Brought To Life
With A Flicker And Flame .


Simon  

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