How can something so enticing

Have such awful side effects

All the itching and the scratching

From withdrawal keeps me

Out of check

I am fixated

On all of the things

We were together

But those are fragments

That are better off

Lost forever

But I've risen

Above all that I have become

Turned from

The pain

I was trained to love

If I cut the strings

That held me hostage

Would I fall and shatter

If that's what it takes

To breathe again then

And just

How can something so enticing

Have such awful side effects

All the itching and the scratching

From withdrawal keeps me

Out of check

I am fixated

On all of the things

We were together

But those are fragments

That are better off

Lost forever