TRUST

TRUST. The one thing I have to have when in recovery. That although there may be days when things go wrong and I may slide a bit backwards. I must trust the process of life..that it will lead me to brighter days. That my life is worth something, and that I can make mistakes without burdening myself with self pity. Trust, that my life is the way it's suppose to be and it is traveling the exact route it's suppose to be on..(Mardi Reid)


Trust
by Thomas R. Smith

It's like so many other things in life
to which you must say no or yes.
So you take your car to the new mechanic.
Sometimes the best thing to do is trust.

The package left with the disreputable-looking
clerk, the check gulped by the night deposit,
the envelope passed by dozens of strangers—
all show up at their intended destinations.

The theft that could have happened doesn't.
Wind finally gets where it was going
through the snowy trees, and the river, even
when frozen, arrives at the right place.

And sometimes you sense how faithfully your life
is delivered, even though you can't read the address.



"Trust" by Thomas R. Smith, from Waking Before Dawn. © Red Dragonfly Press, 2007.