Alcohol It can stain your lips red Or leave your mouth with a certain taste or smell Alcohol You used it to forget It eased your numbness A raging alcoholic Darling, why are you screaming??? The alcohol was enough to change you One minute your fists are clenching the steering wheel Knuckles white The next you are swerving And listening to elevator music You laugh hysterically as you toss empty bottles out of your window A raging alcoholic You send me texts late at night And call me crying at 4 a.m. You can't drink on an empty stomach And you've got it down to a science when it comes to sobering up for football in the morning Your eyes are this hazy red I can't remember if it's from the alcohol or your allergies, because you haven't taken your medicine in three months I saw you as a broken jigsaw puzzle Just waiting to be pieced back together And you looked so cold So lifeless Your body is ivory white Your lips feel like Alaska biting down on my neck with frostbite I miss when you used to be happy Truly, utterly happy. The radio in your car hums slowly as the lights of the freeway ignite your face Your vision is more blurry Than when the doctor asks you One or two Your father yells at you when you come in from coming in so late I am sorry Sometimes I forget that you are someone else's son and they worry about you Speaking of parents You aren't the only one to possess alcoholism My mother A woman in her fourties has been elongated to this deadly desire since she was a teenager I don't have my license yet But she always makes sure to have a ****** Mary when we are out to eat I happen to think it's because of me Maybe she can't stand my company. She has to poison her blood stream to be able to sit still when it becomes silent The pearls on her neck glisten like the haze of her eyes She seems far away. It was the alcohol that caused the break up of our family A man who turned to god and farming is still married to a teenage partier. Maybe this is why my father hid all of the wine glasses in the house. Her son Has also turned to this deadly conundrum He used to drink over four times the legal limit "I know how to hold my liquor" He'd say under slurred tongues He was a natural Relied on drugs and alcohol to soothe his depression He got pulled over when he was 16 for drunk driving And my father picked him up with shaky hands A dissapoinment, he thought He fell down a flight of stairs in an abandoned building Broke his nose and laid in a pool of water until his friends found him A lesson learned, you'd assume We all work on it differently The sadness, that is. I mean I write But my neighbors drink themselves to sleep An accident waiting to happen When they choke on their own ***** I don't want to plan all of these funerals I love you Give it up