When to start?
Where to start?
What should be done first?
Will the ‘next right thing’ come naturally?
Putting down
drugs and alcohol
prescriptions, and betting forms
ice cream and credit cards
easy for
a few minutes,
a few hours
even a day
but every day?
forever!?
They have consumed a whole life time
until they are the only focus
until nothing else visible to heart and mind
Always
searching and planning
scouting and scoring
dreaming and scheming
Others always talking ~
telling and crying
screaming and cajoling
silent and cold
speaking frantically of ruin ~
lives of family and children
shattered hopes and dreams
They were fools to say such things and talk of addiction
until one day long after many forced tries to change
tiredness swept longings away
sickness of body and soul opened eyes shut tight
just long enough for a frightening glimpse of reality.
Recovery of what?
When to start?
Where to start?
What should be done first?
Will the ‘next right thing’ come naturally?
“People create their own questions because
they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do
they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do
is look straight and see the road, and when you see it,
don’t sit looking at it ~ walk.”
don’t sit looking at it ~ walk.”
~ Ayn Rand
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