You are not my raison d’ etre.

No longer the sun that I orbit around

She has done for you in 4 weeks what I could not accomplish

in 4 years:

Get you sober

Get you praying

Get you work

I know it’s unfair because you did so much to heal me

And now that it’s your turn I am too healed 

To be your savior

For I love myself too much 

And my kids and my friends are too dear

For that sacrifice

Isolation. Complete devotion.

It’s what you require and now that I am here

You are there 

And I cannot be who you want

And I do not want to be who you need

I want to be me

Free

I want to fly solo 

Spread my wings and see just where the winds take me

For I know

It is my time to soar.

I am happy for you

And I will hold you in my heart

Deep, deep in my heart

For all of my days

For always.