In this way, I admit to God, to myself, and to another human being the exact nature of what’s wrong with me today. When I stop denying the truth, it loses its power to destroy me. ~ Voices of Recovery (Kindle Locations 4035-4036)

How can the truth destroy me?
Oh, wow, let me count the ways.
The truth can destroy me
when I lie to myself, to others,
to the whole wide world
to make myself look good…
or at least presentable,
for all my life I’ve known to the bones
I cannot look good if you really see me.
But if I act like a success I can seem to be.
But I know in my bones the truth.
Then, when I quit the lies to you,
the ones I don’t tell but let you believe,
the lies to myself, the fears that cause lies…
Then, when I quit, the truth changes,
becomes empowered…
But truth already had power.
The power to show who I really was.
Does truth lose its power
when I stop denying it?
No. Then the power shifts
as I go with the flow of the truth
and ride the current to recovery.