NORTH LET GO

Let It Be Known

<sup><sub>I called it done the day I put it down,
Like quitting was the cure for all I’d known.
But healing isn’t tidy, safe or sound –
It’s slow and real and built when you’re alone.

Sobriety began to clear the haze,
But clarity can cut as much as mend.
It cracked me open in a thousand ways,
And made me face the parts I used to bend.</sub></sup>

^{_{The real repair came later – sharp and true –
In therapy, in pain I used to flee,
In naming shadows I once never knew,
And sitting with the darkest parts of me.}}

^{_{Not drinking saved my life, but let it be known:
The work that saved my soul, I did alone.}}