Rehab for Raised Spirits

By Tricia-Nicole Lefevers

'Rehab for Raised Spirits' is a debut poetry collection from Tricia-Nicole LeFevers dressed as a journey of rebuilding after having your world torn apart. It is separated into five sections, each a different step for how to let go of the ghosts of your past and raise your spirits in victory. Take yourself somewhere vulnerable and a little strang

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tricia-Nicole LeFevers
• Release date: Sep 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9780578997858

Tricia-Nicole Lefevers

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Step One:

Admit you Have a Problem

Cleaning Day

I’ve hoarded my pain as

Old issues stacked against my ribs

Sensibility buried beneath bottles stuffed with IOUs

And boxes of better-left unsaid

But my gloves are on

And this gutter full of grudges will be the first to go

Bramblewood Heart

In the quiet of the long winter mornings

My knuckles ache, cold as I set to the macabre task of 

Removing the pieces of myself that have died

Some I shave to stubborn roots

Knowing with time and effort

They, too, will be ready for culling

Others are heavy in my hands

I yearn to keep their comfortable, familiar rings

Just for one more cycle

But that is not growth, and I am eager to bloom

In the loam of my heart there are thorns

Defensive things, created from the wetness of weeping

Forgive-me-nots that cry danger, a constant high alarm

They dig into my skin, scraping as I pull them out

Thanking them one by one, I lay each to rest

When the work is done, I stand and smile

I am a garden of possibility

Fresh soil and new seeds

The dawn arrives and I stretch myself towards the sun

A new day has come

A new day has come