This service user has been attending our Recovery Near You substance misuse service and has been helped onto the path to recovery. These poems really provide a snapshot into the emotions and experiences of someone working to shed their addictive behaviours and move on in life.
An excerpt from one poem:
To all my friends who have been thinking of me…
I am good, I am free.
I’ve been to hell along the way,
But I am back it is fair to say.