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I was really quite a lonely person. Maybe that’s why I drank so much. To forget how lonely I really was.</p><p id="da14">I’d surround myself with unfamiliar faces, meeting people who’d compliment me. And then disappear.</p><p id="19c3">A false attempt to cling on to some sort of admiration. All the while still feeling empty on the inside — so I’d drink more.</p><p id="22d2">Drink to fill the empty cavern in my chest. Dr

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ink to sedate my broken and damaged soul. Drink to feel <i>alive</i></p><p id="f1dd">only to find myself sitting in a dark corner, licking my wounds, still trying to pick up the pieces,</p><p id="9fc9">wondering if,</p><p id="8dfa">in the morning I would wake more damaged than when I first began the maniacal attempt to self medicate.</p><p id="9e85">I don’t drink much anymore — <i>but I used to.</i></p></article></body>

I Don’t Drink Much Anymore, But I Used To.

I would wake more damaged than when I first began the maniacal attempt to self medicate.

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I was really quite a lonely person. Maybe that’s why I drank so much. To forget how lonely I really was.

I’d surround myself with unfamiliar faces, meeting people who’d compliment me. And then disappear.

A false attempt to cling on to some sort of admiration. All the while still feeling empty on the inside — so I’d drink more.

Drink to fill the empty cavern in my chest. Drink to sedate my broken and damaged soul. Drink to feel alive

only to find myself sitting in a dark corner, licking my wounds, still trying to pick up the pieces,

wondering if,

in the morning I would wake more damaged than when I first began the maniacal attempt to self medicate.

I don’t drink much anymore — but I used to.

Poetry
Drinking
Alcoholism
Addiction
Depression
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