Sometimes love can be a drug. Blinding you to the hold that someone can have over you. An addiction to a person that is potentially unhealthy.
Tag Archives: Strength
Haiku for Healing
I am wrapped in peaceNature’s embrace holds me tightand I become strongCopyright © 2025 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights Reserved
Haiku for Healing
When times get tough a strong heart will see you through
Winner Takes All
The poem expresses the speaker’s experience of being stifled and alienated by someone’s selfishness and anger. Despite this, the speaker asserts their victory by reclaiming their joy and refusing to be broken. The poem emphasizes the resilience and triumph of laughter in the face of adversity.
Wounded Dignity
Wounded Dignity
Walk away they said
As if it were that easy
Walk away
You can do it
The guilt is not yours to carry
It is no longer your karma
Walk
Walk quickly
Walk like you mean it
Starting Over – Flash Fiction
The fragrant smell of roses was my wake up call reminding me to savor the moment. How long had it been? Was it three or four years? Shuddering I dispelled the troublesome thoughts that continued to creep into my head, derailing me. I let my mind come back to the present. Today was going to be about me andContinue reading “Starting Over – Flash Fiction”
Emboldened – A Quadrille
Emboldened As much as he triedshe refused to waverOh so easy to sink backinto material comfortThose things keptthe wolf from the doorbut starved the brainof nourishmentEmboldened, and witha shake of the head,she never looked backCopyright © 2023 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights ReservedDe is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets.Her prompt tonight isContinue reading “Emboldened – A Quadrille”
Enough is Enough
Enough is Enough The white rose petals, dried and flat lay between the pages of their book of life Memories of the brief periods of peace Lost in the surge of turbulent and ever-rising tides of their conflicts The storms would subside and seas calm once more A truce called and treaties signed The ravagesContinue reading “Enough is Enough”
Take a Chance
Take a Chance Sometimes you don’t see it coming Busy spinning on the hamster wheel because that’s what you do Every day like the one before doing the exact same thing Addicted to the familiarity The soothing balm of sameness safe, predictable Perfected over a long period of time As if the instructions were printedContinue reading “Take a Chance”
All’s Fair In Love And War – A Quadrille
All’s Fair In Love And War It is fair to say that you have let me down In all fairness I ask you honestly through a frown I’m not your fair weather friend Easy come, easy go I deserve better Fair’s fair I think So away from you I grow Copyright © 2021 Christine BoltonContinue reading “All’s Fair In Love And War – A Quadrille”
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