Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.