janbear
03-31-2009, 08:33 AM
Family Found Among Strangers
Lost and alone,
Friends and family gone,
I was drowning in self pity,
Self loathing eating away at my soul.
My family long since given up on the wreck that I had become.
My world shattered with the simple decree of a Judge,
Ordered to attend 13 weeks, meetings of AA.
I walked into that room, head bent in shame.
Lost and alone no where to turn no one to turn to.
Then a stranger held out her had and bade me welcome.
Surely if she knew she would not welcome me I thought.
That first night I listened to these strangers
and found myself in each of them.
And now through each struggle each craving
every high and every low I know where to go
I found myself in these rooms,
and I found a family among strangers
Anonymous
Lost and alone,
Friends and family gone,
I was drowning in self pity,
Self loathing eating away at my soul.
My family long since given up on the wreck that I had become.
My world shattered with the simple decree of a Judge,
Ordered to attend 13 weeks, meetings of AA.
I walked into that room, head bent in shame.
Lost and alone no where to turn no one to turn to.
Then a stranger held out her had and bade me welcome.
Surely if she knew she would not welcome me I thought.
That first night I listened to these strangers
and found myself in each of them.
And now through each struggle each craving
every high and every low I know where to go
I found myself in these rooms,
and I found a family among strangers
Anonymous