Alcoholism

[Delta40]

A twinkle in your eye
Once spake of the shiny kind
I Let my heart beat to the rhythm
of your words

Now older, you reel and slur
in smelly fermented wheat
mingled with clouds of stale tobacco

Your naked truth glares too true
Nonsense and no sense
of what you may do

A twinkle dies slow
ere the tale can be known
of dark horseys and soldiers
Slain in your boy mind

Mourn for a time forgotten
through chipped glass of obliterate
Drown in your melancholy and soda

[~Sophia~]

Oh, ouch. This was sobering and beautiful. I've been in that kind of relationship and you have captured the torment! Very well done!

[Virgil]

Outstanding. Delta, your poetry keeps getting better and better. I really liked this:

Now older, you reel and slur
in smelly fermented wheat
mingled with clouds of stale tobacco

[skib]

It certainly strikes a chord with those of us that have lost a loved one to alcoholism.

[firefangled]

This is a powerful poem, Delta. "Melancholy and soda" is brilliant.

[Delta40]

I have been told that my writing has a powerful element to it and I really want to dig deeper into that - across time, I assume

[Bar22do]

So powerful! effluvia of self-destruction, which even the best of love cannot redeem to a scent... a very fine poem...