1001 Nights

This is the 1002nd posing of Recovery Daily Dose. It's being done on Donegal Bay in a resort wifi room with limited connectivity and hours. Maybe not as challenging a the day after major surgery, but up there. It is a MAJOR part of recovery at least for the authors. Thanks for your encouragement.


Scheherazade evaded certain death
one night at a time by finding a plan
and working the program. Each day
she had to scheme, tell a tale
but stop, one day's words sufficient,
not to worry and fret about the next.
With discipline she halted,
sometimes at a cliff-hanger,
others evenings amid complex analysis,
but always requiring the king
to keep coming back to find the way
to grow, to learn, to become, to soar.
He came to believe, saw she was reliable
by listening, understanding, having patience,
trusting the resolution would come.
A thousand and one nights
she worked her magic, showed how it worked,
watched the king evolve,
demonstrated he might rely on her.
And looking back after coming back
a thousand and one days
he found what he'd been looking for
and never hoped to find.