Yes, you’ve grown accustomed to chaos,
expect arguments and tension
in all relationships, feel enmity.
Your resentments rage,
conversations occur in cursing yells.
Life in your dictionary is disagreement.
Then a few meetings, some reading,
following twelve simple steps…
and it’s gone. It may still roil around you
but it’s not in your heart, not in your mouth.
You work on keeping your own street clean
and let the rest take care of itself.
But it feels so weird, so fake, so pretend.
Shouldn’t you be in on it?
No. Things have changed. You have changed.
Trust the peace.