Poetic License: April 2002 Online Poetry Journal

If only
by Ritika Aggarwal

Goodnight
by Tara Knapp

Whereabouts
by Shayla Price

Addicted
by Claire

Your Voice, Your Song
by Amy M. Olstead

Farewell to the Queen
by James Reuben Hunyar

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Addicted
by Claire

Body yearning,
Brain Pulling,
Heart reaching,
Crawling creeping,
to familiarity.
Everything known becomes routine
and routine becomes life
until there is no turning back.
Change is dreadful
and difference is terrifying.
Day after day,
habit begins to pull.
Drags you away to a world of repetition,
away from reality.
Life is swallowed up,
buried in the back of your mind.
All you think about is patterns.
Patterns, routines repeating over and over in your mind
And soon you find yourself
not able to do anything else.
New things petrify
and experience sends a tingle up your spine
Then your
Body is yearning,
Brain is pulling,
Heart is reaching,
Crawling creeping,
to familiarity.

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