I Got Clean

Recovery is possible and life changing! It's wonderful!

 

 

 

I got clean just in time to see the damage I’d done

If it was a race to destruction then surely I’d won

 

I got clean to be happy to feel I’m alive

Though life is a struggle, I want to survive

 

It was easy to be an addict because I didn’t care

if the bills got paid, I was full of despair

 

I got clean so I work to pay for my past

To pay this and fix that now is my task

 

To right all the wrongs will take quite a while

But this race is my journey to go calmly in style

 

I got clean just in time to change my destination

To be happy and peaceful through self preservation

 

Peggy Gildon © 6/2007

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

Most can't stop the downward spiral, so your story gives hope. If you're like me, you think about how much better a person you could've been and how much more you could have accomplished if not for the drugs/alcohol.

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This rings so true for any addiction. I would say that this reminded me of my battle with cigarettes, which ended two years ago. Very solid and nicely penned and oh so true...