Poem About Addiction to Drugs Alcohol and Recovery

Starting Today – A Poem About Relapse

If resisting was an easy task,
who would be a slave?
Who would part with a piece of themselves
for the chance at an early grave?
Willpower alone is enough to put you in hell
but it's not enough to pull you out.
You'll never have a chance at getting well
until you accept living by a different route.
If change is what you want,
you'll have to change much about you.
You'll have to learn to become humble
and do what trusted advisers tell you to do.
The road is long and hard
but worth every step of the way
because you have the opportunity
to be free again starting today.

-Poem Written by Justin Farley

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