That poem reflects a lot of the decisions I had to make when my AH went into and came out of recovery. I made a decision to stick by him in recovery (not in active addiction) and therefore every day I had to chose to look forward.
People ask me all the time, how could you stay with him? how do you get past all the terrible things he did to you? The answer is that I:
face forward (choosing to forget the past)
Eyes wide open (not living in DENIAL, not getting sucked into the drama)
And keep on walking (following thru with the choices I made)
Hold tight (to Jesus) and don't let go