Out of the darkness : shedding

I remember now

With a flood

How you brought me out of the darkness

I was living in

I remember now

How your love and belief in me

Made it possible for me to

Reach for sobriety

And I remember too the times

It hurt you

When I hurt

I am sorry now

I could not see it then

How hard you tried

Not knowing what to do

And how in time you had to walk away

To save your own life

And leave me

Back in the dark

If I could change these things

Then I would

Sometimes I lose sight of the goodness in me

That made me pursue this path

One were my heart would be

Completely torn to pieces

Only to be re-arranged

I often say it

Life is strange

But in the end it will have its way

And we must dig so deep to find the meaning

Even as we are leaving

That older self behind

We must remember to be kind

To everyone

As we undergo the displacing

The replacing

And the shedding