A Recovery Saga

My own experience holding onto my recovery!

A Recovery Saga

 

Out of the long awaited darkness

Came a woman forced to live by her past

A high-risk lifestyle of smuggling and drugs

An autobiographical movie she was typecast

She was not free she was imprisoned

Into a large bubble pipe made of glass

From negative event to negative event

She was dragged through it and passed

 

And through the years she only existed

Feelings of turbulence wide and in motion

Her nightly routine from dusk till dawn

Her daily life was splattered and broken

She wanted to be real in a pseudo world

A drug world where validity is hoken

And deep within her searching soul

Come her genuine words but never spoken

 

Through the blue-hazed fog of indecision

Came a moment of sunlight clarity

She faced the mirror she face the fear

She can’t stay on this continuum of disparity

The dangerous events she had no control

Life-threatening in severity

She wanted to run she wanted to hide

From all the sins, lies, and vulgarity 

 

She had to ramble she had to move on

She had to seek and find an ally

She came to a fork in the road

One labeled “hard” the other labeled “high”

Scared as she was she chose the “hard”

With mounting courage gave her best try

With one last glance at the road she traveled

Came a heavy breath and a whispered “Bye”

 

 

Her first recovery moments were adventure

She walked through indecision blind

And each new bridge she conquered and crossed

Was a pot-at-the-end-of"the-rainbow find

She made new cyber friends she got educated

She sharpened her memory, wits, and mind

Now shooting for the stars of a personal goal

Wakes each morn body, heart, and soul aligned

 

What once was the high she lived for

Is now a reminder nauseating thought

All those years she stumbled and fell

All those negative events she caught

Like a mountain-climbing expert

With each rise she fought

To keep her recovery to keep abstained

To keep an achievement earned not bought

 

Now with continuing battles

She still fights with a vengeance

To put her past behind her

To keep her balance and independence

With her deep heart-felt words

She creates motivation with each sentence

Her recovery now and until forever

Remains with her heart in attendance

 

LIFE IS SUCCESS WITH RECOVERY!

 

©LadyAnn Graham-Gilreath

March 18, 2018

 

 

Author's Note

Hope you find this motivating!