I want to help you, I want to embrace you in a hug, so you know.
I want to take away all your pains, and tears, to make you glow.
We talk and you drink, we talk and you drink.
Over and over, until you can't even really think.
This makes me want to cry, as your slurs, turn to blurs.
Drinking to stop from thinking, all that can be wrong.
Drinking and slurring was my families favorite song.
I want to help you, I want to embrace you in a hug, so you know.
I want to take away all your pains, and tears, to make you glow.
This may seem hard for you to understand,I can't play in your band.
I left that life thirty years ago, swearing to never be a drunk.
I have spent thirty years sleeping sober and straight in my bunk.
I deal with all that life throws at me through knowing I am strong.
This doesn't make me better than you, I just know that its wrong.
I want to help you, I want to embrace you in a hug, so you know.
I want to take away all your pains, and tears, to make you glow.
We have all had past experiences that hurt us to our core.
Things we wish, they never happen, or times we wished we done more.
But turning to a bottle will never change, what we refuse to see.
Tomorrow will always wake you up, reminding you, you talked to me.
Then all the problems you feel and think, lay, until you drink.
I want to help you, I want to embrace you in a hug, so you know.
I want to take away all your pains, and tears, to make you glow.
The problem with your past-time, and here within this rhyme.
Is that your drinking should be seen, like your committing a crime.
Because its stealing away more pieces of you, every time you drink.
Your ability to see yourself, and feel good about what you think.
You allow your pains to stay, so you have reason to drink them away.
I want to help you, I want to embrace you in a hug, so you know.
I want to take away all your pains, and tears, to make you glow.
I love you my friend, and I think you know that.
But I have no miracles to pull out of my hat.
This was all written to show you ONLY ONE SURE THING IS TRUE!
NO-ONE CAN TAKE AWAY WHAT IS YOURS, IT MUST BE DONE BY YOU!

you gave me a good idea for a poem


http://www.mingle2.com/topic/show/267380

WELL,,THANKS for your great words about my write here,,,









Just kidding ya Queen,,,,I know it sparked an idea so ya flew to type it out,,ITS ok,,,and yours was cool to,,wink,

this makes so much sense..
<<-- sober 36 years...

May I say CONGRATULATIONS and it CAN BE DONE THEN,,wink,
Many FEEL THEY CAN'T......
I am PROUD of you for TRYING,,and FOR SUCCESSFULLY STAYING, with your mind aware of that risk and problem...always there...

YOU SIR,,,,are a WINNER. and THATS something to be very proud of to say.....

I have never had it,because I ALWAYS FEARED IT as to do it very often,,yet it also has NEVER made me change as the person I am now,,except for maybe more silly funny ha ha's,,lol.
My dad was a drunk who took me into bars at the young age of three on,,he would have me dance in front of the juke box while more drunks would yell,laugh, spill beers, and buy me a soda pop.
WHAT A LIFE,wink,,lol...so when ANYONE drinks and slurs and shows me a taste of THAT young to teen past life I lived,,,I get ill.
In all ways and leave them or that place their all drunk in,,,lol
JUST a choice,,like YOURS,,that I have chose to live...
Thanks for your comments and feeling this proper as to being REAL with its truth..<----This dude drinks way to much,lol

Nice one T..

<___ dnt get get...... I drink i smoke i roll it all up an why do i do this all becuz i let it billd up until i go up an kant take it an more thats why i drink to set my self free yet im so young i should b free but i am not

oh sweet babe, you can be free , you can make what you want of this sad world if you would , don't let defeat win, get out find a hobby (besides drinking) do something good for someone or fine a course
in collage, anything to keep your mind busy , then you will find your self free and need no monkey on your back to guide you , cause with drink ,you will never be free, good luck to you babe

this was a really good poem and had I lot of truth in it, drinking is never the solution ,always brings more problems. bit people do tend to forget that, the problem is always there in the worning when they wake up , drinking doesn't cure it just enhances it, very well written poem and truthful in what you are telling your friend, good write

Thank you for your reading this,,and I really want to thank you for your kind words to the one here you replied to with your advise,,,That was Sweet of you to WANT TO DO...YOU will be great on this site,,and welcome..

As to D156,,,hey man,,WE ALL DO SOMETHING,,that takes our minds away
from life,,now and then..

Its THAT THING with how often you feel the need to do that,,and how much ya do when ya do?

YOU nor ANYONE will ever find out who they are through ANYTHING,,
that MAKES THEIR MINDS LEAVE OR BE HAPPY...Only WE can feel who we are and only we can make a choice to WANT-TO CHANGE...
BUT only through CLEAR EYES and a clear MIND..

So if to PARTY is how you want to LIVE and BE all the time.
Trust me it will bite ya in the asss in the end as it will TAKE everything away from you including friends and even family..
Some friends I have had,,drugs and booze ended their lives already.

Tobaco rules me,,but never have I allowed anything else to make ME someone else,wink..
Ask your family if THEY THINK you get missed up to much?
OR if they feel YOU CHANGE when ya do see them well high?
THEY will tell you the truth?
IF they think you do,,,,,SHOW THEM THEIR WRONG!
And take a break from doing it for awhile to see if you can.
BUT see,,THIS is the thing,,,no-one,,,SEE'S THEM SELVES,,until its already out of control,,,and THEN,,,its very HARD to find the will to be better and who you use to be...I wish you well and hope for
KNOWING you LIKE who you are and others like you around them..
IF THEY DO,,,your cool and all's good!!

(((T)))

<<<<< sobered up years ago

well thank u but i only made it 2 8th grade

Great writing "T"...

Had my own bout with the bottle many years ago. Its over now and I dont need to drink anymore, I will never, however forget the anguish that led me to my lowest point. It wasnt pretty but I can honestly speak from experience and experience is the greatest teacher.

Freedom I believe comes with age and learning life as you go. Some lessons are painful...You gotta pick your battles and dont sweat the small stuff!

Dude YOUR nineteen years old,,,YOU are just coming into that age to BE WHO YOU WANT TO BECOME!!!
I only had a ninth grade education and didn't GO BACK for my GED until I was 35,,,,,,so YOU have a BIG jump on me if you went back next year to get YOURS,,,Being RELAXED and just gettin F'd up is COOL for awhile,,but evryone needs to find out what they LIKE DOING FOR A LIVING,,then GET-UR-DONE....
I NEVER let my grade in school hold me back from DOING MORE so as I could GET a cool job or be LOOKING BETTER for my kids to SEE ME AS..
Just be you and see you down the road,,if your cool with THAT now,,THATS YOUR YOU,,if you want to see a better YOU then,,,MAKE IT happen,,,,,good luck...

yes wisdom from this brother, listen and breathe free.