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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Daring


Daring to try one more time 

Is really unfair
Stay down
Stay in one’s place
Keep the status quo
Do not rock the boat!

Just because
there’s a desire to survive,
wanting to rebuild family is strong ~ a desperate need to live in safety, another chance to grasp health ~ embracing recovery from active addiction brings balance?

Daring to try one more time
may be unfair to you or to me
~ rocking our boats ~
but the determination to go against
entrenched stigma is more than fair.
It is absolutely daring.

“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others
do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
~ (Journal entry, 14 October 1922)
~ Katherine Mansfield,  Journal of Katherine Mansfield

Author's note: Edited January 27, 2024

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