Daily Reprieve · Fall 2014
Hopes and Dreams Beyond Repair
While it sleeps I’m up all night Can’t seem to find a way to make it right…
The sun, I know, will rise again To start this life, anew, and then New hope from friend, from God, my soul To pray for peace and kindness. Make me whole
While I sleep, it’s up all night Licks it’s wounds, it lost this fight
I found my way, this life is mine I experience it only, a day at a time Sometimes quickly, sometime slow
I’ll wake the same, get up and go Tony L.
This is my choice – recovery my own company and no one can take it ’cause I love who I am away from me. and who I am becoming Yeah this is my epiphany and all that I’m achieving right now and I finally see and I am reaching out for help with eyes open wide in the light of enlightenment letting love in, letting life in making that I’m no longer willing to be myself available to be vulnerable a victim of my own misery and for the first time experiencing cause somewhere inside my insides the beauty of honesty in the company I know of another. there’sa better way to go so I let it go This is my choice – recovery and surrender myself and no one can take it away from me. to this fight for my life Yeah, this is my epiphany for the rest of my life and I finally see and it starts with today with eyes open wide in the light of enlightenment me looking for a way that I am stronger to look at myself and say when I am tender I’m OK, I’m enough with my heart, my dreams, my psyche in this moment I don’t have to be setting myself free more or less or anything else to embrace my humanity other than myself in all of its glorious imperfection which is more and my mistakes are my connection than I ever imagined or hoped for. to this world that I live in lessons in humility reminding me This is my choice – recovery it’s better to give than receive and no one can take it and to seek the opportunity away from me. to love, to understand, to forgive Yeah, this is my epiphany and to accept without condition and I finally see life in my skin. with eyes open wide in the light of enlightenment that I can stand to be me This is my epiphany I finally see. be with me and actually enjoy CRV
