Sobriety is Such a Blessing and Joy
Awoke again this morning instead of coming to. Got showered and dressed without throwing up or shaking. Ate breakfast on a stomach that knows hunger instead of indigestion. Came to work instead of calling in sick or not calling in at all. Am productive instead of being a zombie. I can't describe how much more fulfilling my life is sober instead of drunk. Everything, even the hard times, are a gift. e.e. cummings put it well for me.
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)