The Real You

The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

When did you lose the real you?
When did you lose the real you?
For many of us in Recovery
we spent most of the time
before we found the rooms
with a false persona, one we neither
liked or wanted. But it was safe,
or seemed so. We had our addiction
to protect us from fears, anger,
resentment, and despair.
Wr must learn as adults,
when fundamental change
is strange how to be real,
to be a flower, like the wind,
like the ocean, like the sun.