last one

Thanks to everyone who’s helped me over the past 14 months I’ve been struggling against this shit.  Anyone who’s ever read this or left a note here or listened to me rant or talked me down on AIM or whatever.  I’m not so delusional as to believe this’ll be the last time this issue flares up for me, but for right now, I’m at a point where I can get on with my days without the chemical assistance.

Little nerve-racking, little bit of anxiousness over it the past few days, but ultimately, it’s exciting.

Goodnight.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.