Zach Gossett Poet Free verse

Sobriety

Sobriety 
For some it’s chasing the tail of
A dragon.
Walking the 
      White
             Line.
Clouds billowing
Through fits
                     Of expelled 
     Inhalation.
In mine,
         I drowned.

A trickle..
Dark guttery substance letting 
Loose
     Into bottomless oceans.
I could feed the worlds
    Thirst 
Upon the heaviness of my 
Addiction.
I was forever 
             Unquenched.
Unsatisfied, until
        My dark passenger
   Had hydrated his anger.
Filling soulful joy 
         To tar like bitterness.
Body aflame 
  In pain,
Drowning in a desert with only a
     Mirage 
In the distance of salvation.

Lies,
  Told to one’s self.
No more.
Today, I rise.
Standing..breathing.
Being.
Day by day,
One by one.
Today..
I am like a flowing snow melt
       Stream.
Clean,
  Pure.
Godly is my love,
As I am filled and drink upon its 
Serenity.

God…
Thy will..not Mine..
  Be done. 

Praise with me, to days
   Gone by. 
My knees are strong, my will 
Never bending as mine eyes,
Filled with Heavens gates,
Gaze into futures bright.
This is me,
Let it be,
That pink cloud..that hovers still by my side. 
Shield me, oh lord..
From dark temptation into that bright
Yonder ‘morrow.

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