I will be by your side if you need me night and day, I will be the one who wrecks your family life is that okay? I will swerve and curve your emotions and cause you to crash your car in the street, I will make you say things that you will soon regret and like a drum on your children, you will continously beat. I will make you appear unattractive, as you slowly lose the ability to constructively think, I am that 80 proof bottle of poison that you so willingly drink. I thought that you were a genie when I was a child because of your unique ability to stay in a bottle, And I can say and do anything that I want now because I know that you won't remember this tomorrow.
Reason for writing:
I wrote this poem from personal experience for children that are going
through similiar situations and feel that they are the only ones
living with an alcoholic parent or parents. As a child I really thought that
no one else's family went through it. And when you're going through a
tough time and you feel like no one understands the time becomes longer and harder.
If an alcoholic parent or caretaker reads my poem I want them to see themselves and turn around and
correct their behavior. And if a child is reading my poem, I want them
to know that they are not alone and to tell their parents or
guardians how they feel when they are intoxicated.
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