SOBRIETY

Somber rite of passage

Addicted trail of sorrow

Fades slowly into intellectual recesses

Fabricated inferiority

Conceived from unwashed self esteem

Shed like repugnant skin

Shrill resonance of sobriety

Echoes hereafter

Panegyrized homage

Tormented empty life I left behind

Living testimonial

Healing power of Christ

Badge of grace immaculate

I wear with ebullient zeal

Dawn’s deliverance

Myriad of exploding hue

Jubilant human spirit

Story of my life

Began with complete surrender

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”

I Peter 1:23

© Bill Grimes Jr. 2005