Individual bees cannot survive outside the colony. ~ Ross Boehler

Meeting makers make it.
Going to meetings alone may not
transform an addict, restore sanity.
But the lone bee cannot survive
denied the support of the hive
for long. Experience may deceive
to cause thoughts of having arrived,
but the journey continues,
and the solo traveller
soon loses the way
and lapses back
into old behaviors
with old companions.