February 8
Simultaneous Acceptance
Being typical is a difficult thing to live with, but I am
typical. Being extraordinary is a
challenging thing to live up to, but this is also mine to bear, you see I am a
typical alcoholic after all. Walking
with one foot in each camp is not enough. I must simultaneously accept both my
common commonality and my lottery winner uniqueness if I am to travel hand in
hand with my Higher Power. If I don’t
integrate this double reality, allow it to imprint my thoughts the way it is
tattooed in my DNA I can not possibly take the biggest step of all and drop my
judgment of these things so that humility can dwell within. You see there is not enough room in the
vortex of my humanness to accommodate the jags of verdict and the desire for
the sublime smoothness of humility. I can’t chase humility I have had to face
that, but I can remove the impediments to its residence.
Have some compassion for your wounds
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READY
Ready or not here it comes.
Life on terms of its own.
Bracing for the onslaught of gravity
I grip too well the implements of past days.
Fearing the pressure, I lay in my shallow grave,
The ground having been scooped out by my own hand.
Withering from expectation, my blood runs slow and dark,
Reducing to coagulated futility, loosing my life in anticipation of death.
Attempts at being less, as means of protection,
Less is not a solution.
Fading does not make life more livable
It makes me unavailable.
Readiness is my responsibility, it is momentary, momentary is sufficient.
Sobriety is nothing more than lining myself up with the needs of this instant
I need go no further,
Whole solutions are not my department.
Ready or not here it comes.
Life on terms of its own.
Bracing for the onslaught of gravity
I grip too well the implements of past days.
Fearing the pressure, I lay in my shallow grave,
The ground having been scooped out by my own hand.
Withering from expectation, my blood runs slow and dark,
Reducing to coagulated futility, loosing my life in anticipation of death.
Attempts at being less, as means of protection,
Less is not a solution.
Fading does not make life more livable
It makes me unavailable.
Readiness is my responsibility, it is momentary, momentary is sufficient.
Sobriety is nothing more than lining myself up with the needs of this instant
I need go no further,
Whole solutions are not my department.
Showing up,
dressed and washed,
ball and bat in hand
if possible,
Just making it to the
lineup is my full-time job.
Even if I never swing
Even if I never swing
It is better than
being buried in the field
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