My Addiction Poem by Sefofane Shabalala

Never confuse my persistence and resilience
For desperation, I speak my mind,
Spread my heart like nature man deplete and
Fail to conserve yet i reconstruct my self
Like an operating system yet with abhor only
Because i am human.

My addiction ain't effective yet it hurts me so,
Heard stories before 'those who hurt us are the
Ones we love the most' optimistic yet i became,
Blind yet i pretended it wasn't though a toll
It took from me trying to assemble what was
Already dismantled.

It then made sense what it's meant by 'you never
Know what you got until it's gone', yet my addiction
Thus far i fear it's not worth giving up upon because
I for one was one impurity to others...