Family Drug Support - Damien Trimingham

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Damien Anthony Trimingham
Born 9th January 1974, died by overdose 24th February 1997


For Damien by Tony Trimingham To know love a man must dive into life You endured the times of desolation and the descent into dejection You challenged the mountains of self doubt And roamed the fertile valleys of intimacy But the ache in your heart And your silent longing was as vast as the ocean Yet you could knock gently at the doors of people's hearts And your eyes and smile gave entry To the souls of all you encountered You dared to touch all of love's pain and sorrow And longed for love's purpose and motive You heard with your heart You saw with your hands You touched with your mind And felt with your spirit Sometimes reckless, often extreme Not the tentative step for you At times at pain Yes, you knew all love's aspects May you forever know the tranquillity you craved.

Memories

Aged 15

A Poem By Damien

Ambivalence

Embroiled in a drug-filled haze
Melting defence
Got lost in the maze

Lost to my own desire to hurt
Lost to the girl
And a white powdered dirt

Confused the emotion of pleasure and pain
Playing my life
Like playing a game

Caught in my own
Self spinning web
Fighting a war that exists in my head

The inner child has lost to the man
That couldnt see past
An indifferent plan

Lost every rational thought in my mind
Caught in a shell
With nothing but time

And now as i watch
Yet I'm shielding my eyes
With a needle protruding
I'm feeling the lies

A memory, a thought
A relinquishing sigh
A decision to make
To live or to die

To be or to be not
said the guilt-ridden Dane
To find out the truth
and finish the game

Watching the screen now my battle's been won
But what of the kids
Whose battle goes on

Understand, educate and never be blind
To a drug that steals
Health, spirit and mind

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