A sobriety date

August 25- it took me one full year to process the grief and anger from my fire- one day to the year to feel the fear and the resistance to letting go- 
Pain shook me again and I thought I would express myself this time- for I lost my fight to live until I could forgive myself- 
Then there was surrender and others to embrace me I helped myself to them all- 
A woman's call and the roses grounded me and they bloomed when I let go of the way of life I had let consume me- I was no longer in survival mode or so I had told myself as I awoke from dreams and realized something's- 
I was still too thin in the skin I was in I was still in control of no control until I let you take control of me- then it happened and I began to heal you see- for the blackened soul wanted to be free- so I drank no more for misery and with time it left me- happy whole and free