Friday, January 23, 2015

Keep This in Mind

If you have decided you want we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are ready to take certain steps. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58

I want abstinence.
I want the benefits,
all of them...
I came for the weight loss
but I stay for that but more
for I know that's an extra bonus,

that serenity, freedom from fear,
banished resentments,
a sense of hope, of love, 
of possibilities...These I crave.
And I can have them, free for the taking
if I finally understand the implications
of that phrase "go to any length..."
and when I can't obtain the prize
I simply ask myself,
To what length am I unwilling to go? 


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