Daily Reprieve · March 2022
A Frog in a Saucepan — A Poem
They say that a frog in a saucepan
Does not feel the water get hot I guess that is what I was doing I was drinking and I couldn’t stop
The temperature it was growing My time felt like mine less and less
But apparently I didn’t notice I was boiling under the stress
Yet some part of me it was screaming
Get out of the water you fool! I was drinking all secret and lonely
A concrete bench for my bar stool
So I capsized the pot by exploding Got so drunk they just had to know As my world flew around would the pieces
Recover and on with the show?
In the spill of defeat I just lay there Wondering how in the world to get up When God spoke to me through my most loved one
Said there’s AA, why don’t you sign up?
I wept like a baby and maybe That moment was like being born
Defeat was one way of life dying That first meeting like a new dawn.
