Among them you will make lifelong friends. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 152Friendship. What a marvelous idea,
how lucky are those who experience it.
How hollow this promise rings for us
who have always felt friend-deprived.
I once thought I had no friends,
observed, "Others think I'm their friend,
but I have none." How silly!
How arrogant. How wrong.
All it takes is finding other folk
so like ourselves they seem to reside
in our skin, so compatible they appear
as reflections of us. Then these people,
Recovery folks, become lifelong friends
as soon as we meet, as soon as we aver,
I'm friendless, a compulsive overeater
of alcoholic, or co-dependent, whatever.
Just use the one name, Friend.
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