Ceasing Moment

I remember the moment
I said
NEVER AGAIN.
It took alot of me,
And alot from me
To utter those words
But I did it,
And it became me.

That moment changed me
Each time I felt like
Compromising
I've thought back to that moment
And all I'd taken
And all I'd given away
That brought me to that place.
Somehow any other challenge
Meant nothing to me
Because I'd already achieved
The hardest.

At the time,
Though,
It was not a
Conscience decision
To stop.
It was
The only alternative.