Facing the Inevitable

After many weeks ill at death's door
I found myself needing to explore
the curious need to ignore my inevitable mortality
until it bites me on my butt unceremoniously!

I was always the caretaker of others that were needy
not recognizing that had I myself was unready
to notice that I was growing older and that Time
was creeping up on me, and I was past my prime.

I am using my tumultuous journey in A.A.
To look deeply into my soul to display
these half-truths and lies I have hidden
and allow myself to emerge and be rewritten