Partiers in Recovery

Partiers in recovery
On the road to discovery

Layers of the soul washed deep
Covering pain sometimes sweet
Experiences lived
Not looking to repeat

Making amends
Makes one deep
Loving life don't come cheap

Lacing up kicks ain't no trouble
Sexy boots make you strut double
Last thoughts covered with a shovel
Leather heels and soles get muddy
One day we will all be ash and dust

Duplicity
Complicity
Leaves no room for simplicity
Honesty a must
Egos bust
When even our own heart
We can't trust

The sacred names we claim
They gain!
When character defects change
Daddy
Husband
Brother & Son
Might be Greatgrand Fathers
Before we are done!

To the partiers we knew
Who found recovery too
We salute you
For the work you continue to do!

Loving Life

Loving life !!!
Feeling joy
Like a little boy with his
Tonka truck toy!

I Got Friends!!!
Real people I Love
Kissing the sky
In Awe of the Holy Dove

Family!!!
Man I am blessed
Obviously I am prejudice
But My Word!!!
I think they are the best !!!

Having your back!!!
You don't even have to ask
Make a mistake
Hey!!! Let's move on
That was the past!!

Children
I have a tribe!!!
All I want is that they catch Love
Before I die!!!

My prayer!!!
That I impart my faith
What does that look like?
A God who loves and redeems all souls ?

All of Adam on His Holy Roll!!!

Laughter and memories
Stored for all time

One God
One Human Race
From Age to Age
Praising His Name

Pain
Soothed by caring hands
Suffering
Eliminated from each and every land

Diversity
Let the rainbow of humanity be displayed!!!
In language
In dress
In the songs we sing
On instruments played as freedom rings
In the smells of food from every spice

Let us rejoice too
In what makes us the same
The joy of Birth
The sorrow at death
The wedding vow
Is known throughout the earth

The glory of creation
Speaks on every landscape
A designers mind
Impossible to escape

The animal kingdom
Speaks to us in the conduct we observe
Healing in every plant
So please let's conserve

Kindness
Needs no interpretation
So let's walk in Love
Then life and work
Will soon be a vacation

Peace, don

Day At The Office

A DAY AT THE OFFICE

I Loved The Euphoria

'Where Have You Been All My Life'

I said!

Then I boiled off two of my fingers while cooking hot dogs

I thought I should get help

I hope I can finish high school 

I am glad my grandmother didn't kick me out when I was stealing from her!!!

'Next' Shouts nurse from the dosing station

Have you got a bandaid?

Or some goss?

I have blood pouring out this abscess 

The former injection site is bone thick 

And as tight as a three wine corks pushed under lanky muscled
Suntanned skin

Darkened
While walking sidewalks fumed by  

RITPs 22 & 11 bus lines

His grey hair was recently trimmed

He is very polite and several people kindly search for what he needs

No one judges

But all appear relieved the wound was not their own

Can you check this note?

The young, 

Eager 

Flowing skirt, and inexperienced, counselor was not sure what she should include in her first assessment of the suicidal client whose laptop screen was projecting voices to his mind.

Fortunately he was experienced at psychosis and was willing to go to the hospital !

7 intakes tomorrow!

3 staff members coming in early to prepare!!

Just another day at the office.....

Starlite Boston So Long

The artist in me
Birthed in places of discontent
Creative streams
Misery did lend

Gifts found in lands not my own
More difficult to use
Now having returned home

These strange places now part of me
Easy to dismiss
Except
For the faces I see

Much more than a tourist
A labourer in the land
Motivated and energized
Doing all that I could
To make my Babylons
Jerusalem
For those who belong

Many who I Love
Other I despise

There do nothing bureaucracy
In land of The Bean

The other hosing darkness
On land
Radiating Starlite' s torch
Exploitive
Oppressive
Mean to be mean

What providence teaches
Is still to be seen
Thankful for the communist chapter
Where Boston is strong

Starlite's reflection
Clear
Despite all that is wrong
The menu of services
Could not be better

So long Friends

I am Hopeful

I think I have found a place
Where people work together