March 10
VOLUNTARY MUTE
I have learned I don’t have to answer just because someone
asks. I have learned to change
subjects. I have learned it is better to
say nothing. Repeating the phrase, ‘it’s
just my opinion,’ followed with, ‘I could be wrong,’ has proven
insufficient. Somehow things frequently
turn out worse than I expected but, as of yet, none have turned out better;
this upsets. People become angry when I
am correct; they are less angry when I’m silent. I tell the truth and trouble follows. I didn’t get sober to lie. So, I keep my mouth shut. There is no reason to distress folks, and
reality has a way of doing that. Silence
is my new defense. I hide inside of it
and find my new freedom. Unless it
concerns my sponsor, my sponsee, or my cherished friend, battening down the
hatches saves me from a tempest and spares others their outbursts.
Persuade yourself
to breathe.
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Conception 2
My active voice is the
elixir of fire
my addiction would have me
snuff
in order to keep us hidden
from each other,
me hidden from you, you
hidden from me
and no one noticing you or I
pouring the drinks.
Minus my active voice
I slip easily into
unconsciousness,
my effectiveness doused.
My active voice is the light
in my room
the candle in my window,
the glow within me,
which illuminates my days as
well as my nights.
Moving ever forward the
gyroscopic precision
of this voice never fails me
if I keep my “listening
ears” turned on and tuned in.
My active voice is and will
always be
the live wire connection of
my Higher Power
uniting with me through
people, places and things.
My effective conscience
is everything that results
from this bond.
I run at an unfathomable
rate of efficiency
when my active voice is on,
my feet fail to touch the
ground as I fly to right action,
The nature of my effective
conscience
is just that, nature,
as natural as if I were not
carrying a fatal malady,
but instead possessed the
secret to serenity,
which in fact I do:
sobriety.
You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane
and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
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