Welcome! All the best!

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
~ Aristotle

sometimes I need a mother
or a father, or a sister, or a brother,
or an aunt or uncle or cousin,
are you available?
you see I am in need of
more family: people I can count on
to look past my defects
of character, far enough
to see the shinier bits of me
that I sometimes lose track of
along my way.

sometimes I just need a place
to lean my weary head for just awhile
someplace soft, with a beating heart
so I can know I am not alone, or bad
or lost or hopeless, just very
very human, like everyone else:
a place to rest for just awhile
before going back at this hard work of
re-weaving the bits and pieces of me
together in their intended size and shape
so long ago abandoned

sometimes, I need a firm and loving
nudge, from someone temporarily
more able than me, to see what I've done
or am doing, that I could change, refine,
or otherwise make better,
delivered not with judgment, but offered
with stringless love that does not attempt
to bind, only to guide, while I seek
out choices not seen before,
paths not yet traveled,
that await me...

yes, I need more family now
on this new road to a new life
I need more brothers and sisters like me
learning anew how to trust, how to offer
and receive from each other, that which
was so often missing when we needed
it the most , while we strive and struggle to
learn how to offer all of this to ourselves
from our new and tender sober selves,
even as we learn how to laugh
and dance and have fun again, together!

:) ONward!

glo

{Thanks, glo!]