The Girl I Became

I always knew I felt different, but never knew why..... I grew up in a home filled with abuse and alcoholism. When I think back to my earliest memories, I remember being made fun of as a kid for my dad killing someone in a drunk driving accident and being in jail. We lived in a smaller community and everyone seemed to know each others business. As I got older, I realized that I also could numb my own pain with drugs and alcohol, and I did from that day forward. Little did I know I would ever wake up one day and ask "how did I ever become a junkie" I was eating out of dumpsters, living in abandoned houses, prostituting and bathing in a river. Throughout my drug use, I never once bleached a needle that I shared with strangers in that twisted world of drugs. I look back and wonder "how did I ever get out alive?" Many of my friends and lovers are dead today from addiction........ How I got out is only a question for god! I was given a second chance at life that not so many people get. I have felt the grips of death and never want to back to that space again. Today I get to help revive the very people I once was, I am an addictions counselor. For I have been freed from the slave to the needle and live each day in remembrance of that person I once was and never want to be again.

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