A Special Quiet

This Christmas was quiet
mostly calm and settled ~
despite folks away
estranged from families
always hoping to 
get better
be better
recover from active addictions
find a life
that was or
that could be
pulling away from addiction’s grasp
struggling to believe where
belief had been lost
smiles and tears
for all that has been.

“It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was 

once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”

~ Criss Jami, Killosophy