With and Without

May 5

With and Without

With my sponsor- Without my drinking buddies

With my Big Book- Without my contrived dogma

With my home group- Without my dysfunctional family

With my step work- Without my mental masturbation

With my sobriety- Without my insanity

With all this I can live Without all that

Appreciate the strength of your neck

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THE LONG VIEW

The long view requires an enduring embrace of the past

It requires a great love of people

The race and individuals

I cannot see what we do and flee

I can own what happened, what happens and what is to come

If only so I can ratchet improvement into my own behavior

I can see and feel change, cringe if I must, but go on

The horizon is there to set the stage

It hangs long and low

It stands guard for the life there is to live

I will view it

And use it as my gauge

Keeping perspective is the key

I know it for what it is

And that makes me,----me

The short sight and the long view

My open arms hold it all

My sight brings it all into my heart.