Day 1

Number of days sober: 1 I desire to be sober again. Escaping hasn’t worked; it is time to try something new. Pausing for a moment of reflection, it isn’t that escaping didn’t work, it is that I outgrew the tool. I have things I would like to do and they are better done sober.

Sober Difficulties

Absent from my life, Absent from my lung, Absent from my belly, Oh how hard it is to miss that drunken high, Higher and higher till I landed, Flat and maladjusted, Using to avoid life, Life not lived to avoid thought, Void and bland, Now sober my airplane lands, Runway to take off again, Never…