Clarity

Recognizing my recovery process.

Blank page stares me in the face
Daily my mind will race
To the days of the pain
When it was so hard to say my name
Thinking my life could go no other way
Thinking it'll always stay the same
Until one day- it all became clear
All those years & tears were because of fear
Thinking I had to be this person
That society said Id be
Thinking there was no way to tame
This beast inside of me
Being told you'd never be anything but a JUNKIE
It ate me up and fed my disease
All the while keeping me trapped in defeat
Somehow I managed to jump back on my feet
& let the people around me see the real me
I try not to hide from the things that break me
And today that's the only thing I can do right...
Stand up to all the bullshit
& continue to fight the fight.