Tenacity

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ~ Amelia Earhart

Walking through the doors
of the rooms of recovery
takes courage, desperation,
hopelessness, despair.
Staying there feels wrong
but seems right all the same,
for people there have what you want
or if they don't there's a hint
of what it could be like.
Staying there, enduring,
persevering, plodding on
can have moments of ecstasy,
weeks of doldrum. But stay there.
Keep on going. Even when it seems
a waste of time, that hint of hope
holds you there. And if you remain,
if you stay the course, if you stick it out
the hint becomes promises fulfilled,
what you wanted is what you have,
and tenacity is rewarded 
in abundance and profusion.