bottles containing love and acceptance
drunk with indifference
living in a world –
of poor weather interspersed by nonsense

i miss you –
and i know that we add each other –
to our lists of –
what ifs and maybes

i do wish they’d looked after me as a child
alcohol and mental illness,
events i never saw,
or sometimes never knew of

Strength From Within strength does not come from others not in the end, ultimately it comes from within and that…