Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.” — C. S. Lewis (Laura Drake, The Sweet Spot)

It feels so like home, the rooms of recovery,
so that we call it our family of choice.
When we’ve lived all our lives feeling alone,
a freak, different, deviant, mutant.
It is home, for we’ve found our kind,
our tribe, the people who used to do
the same things we did,
who face the same issues, challenges,
who find wisdom in the same simple sayings…
We’ve found our home, our friends,
our soul mates and in the process
we finally make friends with ourselves.