SOBRIETY
Somber rite of passage
Addicted trail of sorrow
Fades slowly into intellectual recesses
Fabricated inferiority
Conceived from unwashed self esteem
Shed like repugnant skin
Shrill resonance of sobriety
Echoes hereafter
Panegyrized homage
Tormented empty life I left behind
Living testimonial
Healing power of Christ
Badge of grace immaculate
I wear with ebullient zeal
Dawn’s deliverance
Myriad of exploding hue
Jubilant human spirit
Story of my life
Began with complete surrender
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
I Peter 1:23
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2005
