This Poem was Submitted By: Irene E Fraley On Date: 2004-01-20 18:48:58 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Meeting

In recovery, one sits in the room hears and sees humanity in the speakers, the listeners. Some are quiet, seeming to prefer to listen and not speak except through the nodding of heads as they hear their lives, their truths spoken by others. The courts have judged this way of living a religion. I do not worship as often as I could or should, still burdened by Ego, thinking myself different, deceitful, not equal. Tonight the sharing  comes  to the subject of the void within. I still myself, steal myself, steel myself as pain, a familiar ache in the tensed chest, pinched lungs, tight throat, announces its presence. This is one of the bricks in a wall built long ago.  A rasp in the voice speaking scratches the truth of his life as he says simply,  “Perhaps it will never fill up. Perhaps everyone feels this hole. Maybe it’s the price we pay for having choice” The room is quiet for a moment as this thought is absorbed.  I do not say what I am thinking. I think that the price of being human is that we separate from God. Maybe the hole is death, our portal back to God. I have heard what I needed to hear, I have heard what I tried not to hear. I have felt the fear I denied. Another lesson in being human Another holy night for me in the rooms. Another meeting.

Copyright © January 2004 Irene E Fraley

Additional Notes:
My first try at a confessional poem. So far, I haven't "got it."


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