A Glimmer of Hope

They call it an illness sometimes a disease

Call it what you want but help me please

Got nothing or no one, just want to die

All of this down to a chemical high

Locked up like an animal in a lion’s den

I’ve gone back home to prison yet again

No more drugs and that is a promise

The Lord has blessed me with a shot at THOMAS

Honesty is paramount the answer is within me

Keep working the programme and I will find the key

No more Mr Nasty I can now drop the act

I’m now with a new group who’ve made a lifelong pact

Life is on the up now I’m strong once again

Ready to move on and stand tall amongst men

I think back to the day when I couldn’t cope

God bless u THOMAS for this glimmer of hope

Simon

 

 

Junkie & Others

 

I was written down in history

Junkie was my name

I was causing so much misery

Never feeling any shame

 

I bit the hand that fed me

I took for all I could

I stole, I hurt, I lied

To get that poison in my blood

 

I never took a minute

To see the harm I’d done

I was wrapped up in addiction

And saw it all as fun

 

I never saw my mother cry

No way would I look back

I’d be gone to score more drugs

And fill myself with Smack

 

Then nothing else would matter

As I lay there in a state

With no worries in the world

Is what it would create

 

Now that I have a programme

Brought to me by NA

I see the hurt and pain I’ve caused

When I lived my life that way

 

And now I see my mother

I look into her eye

The relief she feels now I am clean

She holds me and still cries.

Wayne

 

 

Life and Love

I live my life the best I can

And wake up every morning

Trying to learn an NA programme

At the moment my life feels good

I don’t feel like a criminal living

Like a criminal would.

I feel clean and serene and at last

Feel like a human being. I don’t

Need drugs or drink

As a mind altering

Substance to make me think

I feel alive.

About fours years ago I felt my life was no more

I lost my family and friends

But stand here today knowing I’m making amends

I’m dying to live but living to die.

But sometimes I think of life in the past and just feel like a good cry,

So I can then leave my post

And say goodbye.

 

 

An eye for the weather?

(HAIKU)

 

SUN

Light shining from your eyes

as the words ’I love you’

are softly spoken.

 

RAIN

A flood of tears running

from your eyes and down

your cheeks. Red and salt-burned

 

CLOUDS

Uncertainty as your

eyes milk. Upon your brow

appear deep furrows.

 

WIND

The energy of soul,

raw and infectious

clearly seen in your eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

THE TREE

The tree stands alone

But is it truly lonely?

It stands like the rest of Nature.

So what is the connection?

 

Hm! Nature.

It entwines itself with uniqueness;

The soil needs the grass

The grass needs the soil

Everything individual, but yet the same,

They all need each other.

 

How you might wonder?

Well isn’t that obvious?

They share the cycle of life.

Well why is this fascinating because they give to survive?

The sun gives light and heat

This produces the rain which feeds the plants;

The plants feed the animals and this goes on.

 

Selflessly giving what’s needed never taking what’s wanted.

With this blossoms love, with natural colours and shapes of beauty.

Open your eyes, the world is a beautiful place.

 

Ignorance comes from fear of what we don’t understand.

We all have one thing in common;

Freedom to love.

 

David Southern

 

 

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