One Day At A Time

You were always so good At hiding yourself in the dark I tried and I tried To throw you out Of the furthest recesses of my mind And somehow you are still there Embedded in the deepest crevices of my brain Where I couldn't see you Lurking there in the blackness For thirty years Waiting ... for one of those days When I'm down and out So you can kick her When she's already on the ground Fighting ... to get back on her feet Knees buckling Remembering how to stand again One day at a time Before taking my first steps Recalling well enough How to believe How to smile How to run From the darkness And away into the sun Where you can't hide from me Where light and heat Disintegrates you to dust Revealing all That you are and were Until there is nothing left of you To blow on the wind … Out of sight Out of mind ... One day at a time.