bryan nally

 

 

Getting Over The Dog Thing

 

i remember how hard it was for everyone when i said i would quit but that it wouldn't be easy. recovery is not a simple thing you just decide you are going to do, i explained. i told them that certain seemingly trivial things would jump to the forefront as exceedingly important. my son, for instance, struggled with closing the latch on the gate. it was hard for him to understand that if it was left open his dad just might take off down the street and not come home until the middle of the night. he didn't believe it until one night my barking woke him and he peeked out the window to see me crawling around and foaming at the mouth. the hard part for me is wondering how many of the dumb things i have done will be remembered. it certainly seems counter intuitive to write it out in verse, but i hope that someday someone will read it and realize that i may have been selfish but i share deeply and forever in the hurt.