Keep This in Mind

If you have decided you want we have and are willing to go to any length to get it — then you are ready to take certain steps. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous, page 58

I want abstinence.
I want the benefits,
all of them…
I came for the weight loss
but I stay for that but more
for I know that’s an extra bonus,
that serenity, freedom from fear,
banished resentments,
a sense of hope, of love,
of possibilities…These I crave.
And I can have them, free for the taking
if I finally understand the implications
of that phrase “go to any length…”
and when I can’t obtain the prize
I simply ask myself,
To what length am I unwilling to go?