October 3

Sackcloth

Tragedy is a tale unfinished.  Life is far longer than calamity can endure.  I will not give up, not even when hope is lost, for life carries forward; more is filled with optimism.  Threads break, but the fabric is woven still, flowing off the living loom waiting to be used.  I will cut my swath and fashion a garment to wear and if sometimes it is filled with ashes I will sit and grieve all the while knowing that this is never the stories end.

See through your own shades

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AMENDS

Amends is about truth and change.

The relationships of my past

Were places of little truth

And even less change.

I tried to be nice----not honest

I tried to keep things going

Even when they needed to die.

Making amends has ended

Most of my relationships from the past.

A quick 10th step keeps me

From starting too many new ones.

Good healthy relationships

Require time and attention

So this necessitates a short list.

Sometimes I wish for more quantity

But I realize in sobriety

I cannot accept less quality.