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Created on: March 01, 2010
The pain
The game
Warning signs
Monkey on my back.
The blame
The shame
Wasted time
Never to get back.
Everybody's gone now
Nothing will make it right
Not whiskey, vodka, wine, or beer
But the monkey holds on tight.
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Poetry: Alcoholism
by Daniel Cloud
Lovely booze, call it alcoholism in the name of damned science
In the name of psychology and psychiatry
It runs my life as
Like a Bottle of Cheap Whisky
Cheapened by yesterday and ripe
Each sip brings the bottle closer to its end
The inevitable
Let me liquid coat my feelings, to numb all of these emotions.
Let me open up the bottle and empty the waterfall of my life's
Always the second priority
To your other woman alcohol
Who holds the authority.
Watching the false sense of happiness
Rush toward
I watched him walk in.
That weaving gate
Drink spilling
Leaving trails of heartache
How many times
Do you watch them fall
How
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