October 1
No Substitute for Fire
I wanted alcohol to do better for me than burning did. I was constantly disappointed, yet I kept
trying. I was not to find pleasure in
that bottle though I had no problem finding addiction there. This is how I came to believe that there is
not an upside to everything. Booze took
me to surprising destinations, but never the ones I desired. I sought release, the release I got from a
wildfire spreading across my skin and this might have been mine had I poured
the liquor on rather than in. But in me
it did no good, it never let me exhale the way that the “right” kind of pain
did. What I got from alcohol drove me though; fear rode me roughshod and I
found my way home, it was a bumpy road, but once there we doused the flames and
I live the upside I had come to doubt, because fire is no substitute for life.
Randomize the alphabet, then write
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MY MOON
I anticipate the crowning of your face
As you birth the sky.
Your rhythmic visitation sates me.
The gravity of my need keeps you close.
The tide of my heart pulls you from shore to
shore.
We live in the sweet ecstasy of tethered love
Our souls slingshoting across the open palm of
heaven
Your empathy for me transforms these shards of ice
To a tender heart satelliteing
I orbit you
Empowered by your kindness
You are my moon.
You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to
Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
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