The Life Cycle of Recovery

Decades ago a wise woman said,
"Too many people are born again and again
but never grow up." Starting over. Honorable.
Essential so often. We eternally return
to the First Step. Yet if it's the same place,
the same unmanageable mess, identical insanity,
then sometimes that needs be done
for maturity comes with a higher reality
of helplessness, of inability to manage.
We need move from egg to caterpillar
to chrysalis to butterfly, not to remain an egg,
then an egg then another egg.