Elbow Benders Poem by Matt Mondschein

All walks of life, enter the arena
Sitting anonymously
For hours on end
Timeless
As pure grain in an hour glass
Overflow
Mindless thoughts of the disease
Alcohol obsessed
Bedeviled, satan posessed
Until one day a ray of light
Shined upon our soul
Climbing desperately
Detoxed
Out of the deep, dark, dreary hole
Into treatment
Some would grasp
One day at a time
most failed
Misery lives on
Elbows still bend
Uncontrolably
Gone