from the brink.

George Eliot: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." — Suburban Tourist

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The time spent — nay wasted — won't come back

Neither the energy — the life that was s w allowed up.

Can anything really come back after addiction?

Can it?

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Dignity.

After being trampled and sullied

can be gained.

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Self-esteem

can be mended

after peeling the flattened epidermis and reapplying it.

Shame, Shame (go away) may come back

at three a.m.

Tuesdays

mid-autumn afternoons.

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I've seen the needle, the damage done, and it was in everyone.

I've seen the flesh, torrid and exploited—a little in everyone.

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Vices all different, but disease the same.

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Addiction is de ceptive, in sidious,

patient.

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Re covery is finite.

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It

Can

Come

Back.

.

Re lapse

.

Re flex

.

Re dux

.

But

Bu t

B u t

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A sense of be longing

A re newed sense of self

comes back

from the brink

of every misstep and plunge.

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When you step back

from the edge.

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Thanks for reading!