The set is where a driven
pile stops and no matter
how hard it is hit, it stays.

Alcoholics use the term to
describe their nadir, which
in lay terms, is snakes belly.

The lowest elevation one
descends to from abuse of
drink and drugs, the depths.

But some of us are born in
it and stay there for entire
lifetimes without escaping.

No amount of Dr. Bobbing
or Bill Wilson-ing makes an
single ounce of difference, 0.

Who you see here, what you
hear here when you leave here
let it stay here, means nothing.

I say that because Rock Bottom
is where you is and where you
had been ever before you drank.

In fact, but for the anaesthetic
of alcohol this den of a stygian
gloom would have killed me.

AA helpline to people like me,
is for broken fan belts, flat tyres
faulty ignition and engine failure.

But it only goes to show, that
those who "recover" as they say,
were on a totally different strata.