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The Past, The Present, And The Future: A Compulsive Gambler's Thoughts Through Poetry Part 1

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The Past, The Present And The Future, A Compulsive Gambler’s Thoughts Part 1 is a collection of poems that express what I was going through during the last ten years of my life. Through this experience I was able to better understand what I was going through before, during and after with my compulsive gambling addiction. You learn an awful lot about your self when you are able to put it into words. In part 1 there are two poems Time A Moment In Passing and Compulsive Gambler Reaching Out.

Time A Moment In Passing

Time, a moment in passing
Fleeting, never everlasting
Two people reaching out
Learning what life is all about
Too short
Too sweet
Too simple
Loving the moments from day to day
Never understanding when one goes their own way
Caring
Understanding
Giving to one another
Makes life wonderful for each other
Friends, we will always be
Both opened our hearts as you can see
Distance, no obstacle for those who care
Always stay in touch which is very rare

Compulsive Gambler Reaching Out

Knowing life's abundant resources
Trying to blend
Mixing, churning, disturbing
Restlessness creeping through my soul
Chastised due to abundant power
People caring but always
Distancing themselves to a major degree
It's time to let me be free
Wanting moments of equalization
Being normal
Stop the pain from burning me alive
Help me please, people you must realize
Only human, flesh is all the same
Why? Why? Why?
Is it better to be financially free?
But needing people to spend time with me
Gambling friends are they using me?
Gambling friends are they true to me?
When will I know?
Must achieve equality with work and play
Telling me it will come some day
Must stay positive and calm

Mr. Howard Keith has an extensive background in dealing with compulsive gamblers, relatives and friends of gamblers and teenage gamblers.

Mr. Keith believes there are many alternatives to aid in the recovery of a gambling addiction verses a twelve step program. A large percentage of his emails were from compulsive gamblers looking for an alternative to Gamblers Anonymous and twelve step programs. Gamblers Anonymous also helps a significant number of people each year but there is a large percentage that they are unable to reach.

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