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Poems
Below are a selection of some of the wonderful and inspiring poems written by survivors that were helped on their way to a better life by the EDANI:
I am a Gift
Like everyone else I too am a gift
God filled me with goodness
That is only mine and sometimes I am afraid to look
Inside my wrapping.
Maybe, I'm afraid I would be disappointed
Maybe, I don't trust my own contents
Or Maybe I have never really accepted
The gift that I am
Every meeting and sharing of people
Is an exchange of gifts
My gift is me
Your gift is you
We are gifts to each other
If Only
If only I had known what would occur, how different life would then have been, without a care no aches or pain
No sorrow wishing life would end
If only I had found a friend on whom I could depend
When looking back on wasted years I long to cry for something that I lost and know will not return no matter how I try
It's never easy to explain exactly what I need to say to show just how it really feels to dread the breaking of the day
At times I long to hold your hand and see you smile
To help you learn and understand, if only for a little while
The roads have been so long and steep, and yet I plodded on I yearned for it to lead me home, instead it left me where I don't belong
The inner conflict I have known is hard to take, I ask my mind to banish it, if only for by body's sake
I dream of being free and yet I know, this safety net I choose to hold cannot remain, it has to go
I'm told the answer lies with me but still I cannot find, a key to open and release
The enemy who stole my mind
Perhaps someday the time will come when free of fear I'll gladly say, that I have found the reason why I choose to live my life that way So I will wait around with hope and then with watchful eye I'll see
The rescuer who has been sent to heal my pain and set me free