Thanks so much for reading and your kind words, Light. So glad you connected with the write my friend. I still believe in light and hope for sure. It’s not always easy in present times but yes I choose to hold on to the light.. Thank you for your continued support. Appreciate you.

Damian

In simple terms this is both complex & brilliant .. Neville

Moving work. “Somewhere between the living and the dying”

I really love that line.
Regards
James

Very good ink

Bat

Powerfully penned, James. Another excellent write my friend. Self-examination can be cathartic at times. Just my opinion. Amazing read. Appreciate you.

Damian

An acquired taste, black coffee is. I can see bittersweet sips rippling through your mind.

Thanks for reading.

Black Coffee is many things. It has a stronger caffeine hit, its healthier for the body, and running out of milk doesn’t ruin your morning like it used to.

Black Coffee is like most things you learn to enjoy it. The world is coated in sugar. Black Coffee is a rejection of sugar.

Regards James

You are game Damian. Hope all is well
Bat

Okay, so this one took me somewhere unexpected. I had the sense of a long battle, a truce that ends the fight but not the enmity…so the enemy is kept within sight. No idea why that’s where this took me. My sister has been sober about the same length of time as you and she keeps a partial bottle of liquor up on top of her cabinet to remind her the enemy is real and not dead. She never touches it, but it reminds her of the darkness it carried, the times she lost and the gains she’s made. Keep the enemy in sight but don’t engage. That takes enormous strength, my friend

Dude, I continue to enjoy a few Beam and gingers here and there. I don’t go out nearly as much as I used to, actually barely I’d say. But, I have learned that control is my friend. As much as I enjoy the time out with friends, etc, I know that there is a rational limit to it all. The best part is how much money I’ve saved! Really. I have a future/goals and now understand priorities much clearer. I never thought I had a problem, until I realized how much time and money as used up in it all.
That and how most bar friends can be quite fickle.
Your write is on point. The characters we encounter, the thoughts, the situations… all of it.

This is nothing short of brilliant .. and quite possibly now very near the top of my Damian DeadLove faves .. Not only that, but it also sits so pretty on the page .. 😎👍

It is taking me a while to get around to the writings, but this is a powerful piece. She’s the lore to a familiar trap. I mean, man that is temptation at its finest.

The tale of the sugar sweet. Of bitterness to the truth. Honesty’s ink runs deep. Great ink Damian.

Bat

Straight to the point. I feel this.
Sobriety is a powerful drug sais Hunter S. Thompson.
Regards
James

Many ways to show the storms in another’s eyes and unshed tears.

Thanks for reading. Its a new verse to an old poem I’ve been working for over a decade.
Regards
James

Beautifully penned, James. Another excellent write with a lyrical flavor my friend. Amazing read. Appreciate you.

Damian