A unit of people (recovery poem)

​This has become the most bizarre unit, 
If you said 5 years ago I would have met you guys? I would have said no
I didn’t frown on alcoholism but I thought that wouldn’t be me..
The world is quite complex, and we are unable to always see.

We get close in the mist,
Embrace the chaos as our friend, 
Then there is the ‘stay at home’ drinks that slowly kills
We are facing turbulence which isn’t the end game we feel.

I have met the best people I have ever seen
I have met all walks of life during my time, 
Not a sheltered life, as I was clearly exposed
Falling down the Pitt in my alcoholism, but now I have put in the word and have now rose.

The family
The unity
The encouragement we have for one another, 
The safe space of the rooms, which no longer bother.

Today I am here
That is all I can regard,
The times of relentless drinking and the prospect which made me weak, when actually I thought I was hard.

Jason
14th April 2026