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 Somewhere between then and when is here.
The volley of pain and anger,
interludes of lust and desire.
Amongst our splicing of warped time and space
are flashes of reality.
 
Your ideas are not my ideas.
Your pain not mine.
Illusions and interpretation of how we acted,
none of it right none of it wrong,
it all depends on what side of the room we were on.
But standing face to face and then in our loneliness
we come to know flashes of reality.
 
I am told religion
is for people who don't want to go to hell,
and spirituality
is for people who don't want to go back.
In the midnight hours we both spend time
enduring our demons,
and praying to our God.
Unfortunately, alone thinking of
what was, what is and what might be.
Do we accept the flashes of reality?
 
I am standing here today,
judge me not on what went on back then
because that was another man.
Judge me not on what you think,
because your heart and mind can deceive you.
Judge on what I do for you, how I am,
right here and now.
Look, watch and believe,
because inevitably you'll see our
flashes of reality.  

By Ron Edwards

 

A little over 9 years I made the decision to become sober and it was the best thing I ever did in my life. When I was 12 years old I began drinking. I also started smoking pot that same year. What I recognized years later was that I was trying to escape the typical adolescent feelings of inadequacy, and I wanted to fit in with my peers.