If a bar tender is your only friend, and a liquor glass is all your lips ever touch,

then you’ve got to look in the mirror and ask yourself, how will this end.

If you’ve known nothing but heartache and pain, listen to your heart,

let its voice help you start living again.

Lie on a hill, look-up where the blue heavens bring peace to the sky. 

Sit at a bench in the park; listen to children’s laughter, birds chirping, 

barking dogs playfully playing, hands walking with each other. 

Many have had the same call, known deep darkness, and climbed out of the same hole. 

Embrace knowing hearts; let them help drive your goal. 

It takes a hero to writhe in pain, to go through trauma again and again.

God knows it isn’t easy to skip a date with your only friend.

Mike Rosen 2.17.21

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