Publisher's Synopsis
In this poem, the writer lays bare his heart. He takes us on the journey of stripping naked and showing us the baggage he carries within. He tells of his struggles and his demons that were almost just about to overpower him. The effects of the inner turmoil cause him to break down and embrace solitude and a life away from the eyes of friends and family.The writer is in a place where he is misunderstood and left alone in the cold hands of loneliness. He takes solace in the only thing he finds around him, alcohol, drugs.He does realize that substance abuse is not the way to go and so he seeks help but he finds none. He goes in search of a listening ear but apparently everyone was too busy leading their lives and so the writer withdraws back into the shell and the addiction takes hold of him.Yet does he rise again seeking to undo the mistakes of his past. He tries to go back and seek for forgiveness from those he must have hurt instead of just wallowing in self pity, depression and addiction to alcohol and drugs. And in these acts of seeking for forgiveness he hopes his redemption would come from.The writer remembers the wound of his past, the scars are there to remind him.He goes in search of a remedy. Hs search is fruitless and he lands in the waiting hands of addiction. Hs addiction causes him to withdraw from the society. He spends bulk of his time alone, in solitude, thinking that avoiding his problems would make them go away. But rarely do problems go away when we ignore them.The writer decides to stop thinking of the past and live in the present.
