Wrestling with Addiction

Poem
Written By Matt Antis

Doing what’s right may feel like madness
When you’re fighting an ingrained trait
Why is it so difficult to flee this rut?
Why can’t we keep all the facts straight?

Those who traveled this suffering road of affliction
Did they look this tragic, stomp-singing about their space
Declaring the promises of God while battling addiction?
How mental to be pulling out hair while stomping in place

How long will this deep soul battle go on?
And the moment you declare the Lord’s generosity
The shimmering light of hope reflects off a jagged corner of my fractured soul
Step aside young soul, and watch the Lord uproot the monstrosity

So, keep the faith all you who battle in your heart
Major on what matters, though you look insane
Minor on what matters less and wait His soon return
Refreshment will come when He pours out his cleansing rain on your soul

Copyright © 2020 by Matt Antis. Originally published in Poet’s Guild’s Poem-A-Day on December 13, 2020, by Ink Jot Kingdom.

Matt Antis

Matt Antis creates online as a freelance writer and novelist who formerly lived as a serial small-business entrepreneur. His life’s goal is to share knowledge, encourage, and challenge others through a coach-student relationship.

An unexpected deployment with the Army in 2009 halted his scholastic achievement, but! He learned the bulk of business in the proverbial trench elbow to elbow with a team of professionals who he is forever grateful for.

When he’s not being a husband, dad, shooting his bow or training parkour, you can find him teaching Sunday school, advising parkour gyms, writing for inkjotkingdom.com and his wife’s children’s book website, whitneyantis.com.

https://inkjotkingdom.com
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