LIFE OF AN ALCOHOLIC

LIFE OF AN ALCOHOLIC

Where the purple haze of evening, meets the darkness of the night,
it brings back memories of when our love was just right,
when we would go out riding, down a lonely country lane,
just to find a place to sit and talk, not causing any pain,
to be alone together was the way we were back then,
oh how I wish it was the same way, once again,
why I started drinking is something I don't know,
but I spent everything, on a dark world down below,
the liquor quickly got me, and hooked me pretty bad,
it cost me the only love that I ever had,
I just had to have a bottle of liquor in my hand,
so I could pay the entry fee to the village of the dammed,
it took me half a life time, to begin to understand,
that booze could only make me, a very lonely man,
now when I look back on my lifetime and have no place to go,
my thoughts go back to the only love I know,
how I wish that I had never taken, that very first drink,
it was the one that got me hooked, and I never stopped to think,
that I had everything in life, that any man could ever need,
I just knew I had to drink, before I ever could succeed,
drinking then became just a lifelong quest for me,
going from town to town, staying on my drunken spree,
it wasn't long before I became another homeless drunk,
and I never thought about how low down I had sunk,
now that I am an old man, not a friend to call my own,
I don't even have a place that I can call my home,
I sleep out on a park bench, till a policeman runs me in,
just so I can be out of the cold, and he takes away my gin,
the judge is my only jury, and he sends me to jail,
thirty days I stay there, no one to go my bail,
but it was there I met someone, that told me what to do,
to start to go to Alcoholics anonymous, and he told me true,
I attended many meetings, before the shakes would go away,
some times I called on others to help me make it through the day,
after a year of sobriety, I am a better man,
and today I just won't take a drink, probably never can,
if I don't have the first one, the second I'll never see,
I thank AA for making a better man of me.

written by Harry Bryant
4/15/05 10:31:00 AM ©
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