The Bottle (repost from long ago)

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azblond
Senior Member

since 1999-07-01

Posts 637
The Steamy Desert

0 posted 2001-07-01 03:11 AM

We started a quest with nowhere to go
I stood beside you with love to show
I believed in you from the start
I dreamed we would never part
You made the promise to start anew
Pedestals and loyalty all from you
I silently reached to hold you tight
I want to help you see the light
But in your grasp hidden from view
The bottle is there taking over you
The words flow cutting from your lips
My heart, it beats, and then it skips
Reality rises and I see the sign
No longer are you truly mine
The drink has won, you lie in its grip
Yet it’s me who stumbles and starts to trip
Love does not end because you gave in
The circle just starts over again
The hurt and despair and endless tears
The harshness of all my fears
Truths that are hidden in an alcoholic daze
Life lived inside this maze
Fight! I pray make it back to me
Stop this endless insanity
Nowhere to go because we’ve been here before
We seen heaven, we’ve been at hell’s door
One more choice for you to make
It’s in the drink you think you must take
Swallow now and say goodbye
For I will no longer live in this lie.

Let my words fall first upon deaf ears before a closed mind...

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

1 posted 2001-07-01 03:19 AM

azblond-
   wow...your name is what got my attention,
   but the poem is what kept it.
   very powerful write about a very
   difficult and painful subject.
   great job, my fellow Zonie.

   ~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

2 posted 2001-07-02 10:51 AM

Sorry for the pain, but glad to see you posting

Lone Wolf
Member Ascendant

since 2000-03-16

Posts 5842
Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2001-07-02 11:35 AM

It's never easy to stand and watch those you love destroy themselves in a bottle of alcohol. Very powerful poem, azblond. Since this was from long ago, I hope you are out of this situation. Well done.

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

LngJhnAg
Member Elite

since 1999-07-23

Posts 3508
Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion

4 posted 2001-07-02 12:08 PM

Wel written, azblond. You captured the hope (and the hell it brings) so well here. The sad thing is that, there is no other option than to hope, or to give up hope. Either way, the perch on the ledge is just as terrifying and irresistable.

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