Fibbing

A fibonacci, or a “fib” has nothing to do with truth or lies. It is a poem based on the fibonacci sequence in math: the number of syllables in each line of the poem is the sum of the previous two lines: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 …. Try writing a six-line fibbonaci, for a total of 20 syllables.

I’m
home
right here
with my kind
folks just like I am
sharing a common compulsion.

Come
in
welcome
we know you
because you are us
sharing our true hope recovery.

Come
home
again
we miss you
knowing your pain
and that you know you’ll find hope here.

Twelve
Steps
simple
not easy
the path we travel
to sanity, recovery, peace.