A Step One Poem
By Dee H.
Powerless without my stinking thinking
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
God wants me to stop drinking
Concretely and abstractly
My Father Mother God loves me
I align my will with God’s—I am free
I am creative, spiritually toiled
I’m an individual—a moral savage
In the flow of all that’s good in the world
One with the power of the universe
and no longer ravaged
Powerless but feeling more powerful
Sick and tired of ugly hang overs
In sobriety, I’m a peaceful gal
There’s nothing to question anymore
God wants me to be a sober female
Liver disease and penniless insanity
Await me If I take another drink
I will die—demoralized and pitied
Everything gone down the sink
From a woman who’s no longer pretty
Yellow eyes, inflated belly, yet boney
Paranoid—nothing makes sense
Recklessly spending money
Staggering, reckless and feckless
Honestly—no good to anyone
I’m powerless yet more powerful
Free to live and love my loved ones
No debt to that resentful creditor
Alcohol has no power over some
Today I live in gratitude and rapture
I don’t need alcohol—it’s too wild
Can’t have it. Allergic!
Nothing left to solve
Grateful for sobriety
and my sponsor, Theresa
For we are girls gone mild
