This is the eleventh in a series this year we’re covering in my weekly Y12SR session (Tuesdays 7 pm ET). Each month, I explore one of the 12 Steps through my own experience as a Yoga practitioner. What I’ve noticed over the years is that even if we may not identify as a person in recovery from addiction (of any kind: substance, process, behavior) it is a useful framework for looking at any behavior from which we seek freedom.
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.”
There are times I can’t see you
can’t feel you
don’t know you exist
I forget so easily
slip too far down the path all alone
turning back, the wood has closed in
in a moment of panic, I struggle
reach for whatever is there, for comfort
stopping short, I remember you
and that moment years ago, when I asked:
please take this from me.
and you answered
by taking it away
and opening everything to me
slowly, in ways I can only really understand
by looking back.
now I need only ask:
please take this from me.
take this solitude, this imperviousness, this rugged individualism
that leaves me stranded in the woods
trying to figure it all out
I can’t figure it all out
shine the light
show the way
and I’ll follow.
