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Self-control
-I've started to sit down in the shower
-I'm not sure if how long, but it feels like hours
-Before I force myself to stand up and turn the water off
-But the second I do I can feel the runoff of my pain come fill up again
-And I can feel the weight of your hand collapsing onto the burnt skin
-That you boiled all those 4 years ago, and probably with a grin
-I say probably, cause as you must know
- I kept my eyes closed
-Just like they were last night
-When my brain decided not to put up a fight
-And the only flight I could catch; was laying in the snow
- How silly of me to think that was the end of the show
-Just like I thought it was, something around 2 years ago
-When I had dressed my depression up with a bow
-And told myself I would never again feel so low
-And I didn't, for about 730 days
-But only because my pain, was hidden in a daze
-The daze who's vibrations continuously started to raise
-Until I could no longer recognize this beautiful actor staring in all my ballets
-But what I could see, was how he or she would lay;
-In bed for hours of the day and play the notes of someone who received praise
-For being just like her; taking tokes of the marijuana glazed haze
-And no, those experiences could not be rephrased or replaced
-Because that's the truth, and how it still is some days
-Its kind of funny how they mistook that for the pain going away
-They looked at their life as a joke
-Which made it easier for the smoke and the coke
-To run through the veins of the legs
-That danced even under the constraints of the chains
-But even that weight was nothing compared to the thoughts in their brain
-That knew nothing but how to maintain and survive
-Even if that meant to deprive the very things that could revive
-So it was no surprise
-When my head took a nosedive;
-Trying to force myself up against that comforting rain
-So it was no surprise;
-Still hypnotized
-Melting into the drain

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My name is Renee, a senior in high school, living in Westminster, Colorado. I wrote this poem November 30th, 2020 when I was at the peak of my marijuana addiction and depression. I wrote this song after having a ptsd episode from a s.a experience from my youth. I went and layed in the snow, to try to get the episode to stop, and after that being slightly successful, I went back inside and wrote this poem. I wanted to express how my depression had added to my addiction, and how I mentally, physically, and emotionally felt at the time; as if my brain was constantly flowing and moving, and draining away. The title's meaning 'self control' is because I had always felt as though I had complete control, or none at all in life. With my addiction, I had seen it as me not having self control, instead of the illness that it is. Now, I am in a much better place, but still learning, growing, and overcoming setbacks. I have shared this on social media, but wanted to get the message more out there. Addiction is very hard to combat in youth, and as I have seen, it can take a hold of you very quickly. Drugs can bring out the undesirable parts of you, and the more unhealed you are, the more accentuated those things will be. But, if you do chose to use, and you find yourself in a bad situation, there is always going to be people (including yourself) there to help you and help you lift yourself back up. Seek growth and salvation and you will receive<333