What My Life Could Be

Ryan Lee Nanez 1986 (Amarillo, Texas)



I sit and think about how my life could be,
as long as I don't put another drug in me.
I know that today I'm someone that I want to be,
and that drugs no longer have me down on one knee.
I'm a better person that all who know me love to see,
because without drugs in my life I know that I can be free.
I know that in my addiction I wasn't the person I knew I could be,
always feeling like I was alone and lost in a forever never ending sea.

About this poem

It is a poem about my life in addiction and what my life and I could be in recovery.

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Written on October 11, 2023

Submitted by ryann.72995 on February 28, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAAAAAA
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 439
Words 103
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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