Booze Keeps Me Alive Poem by Usman Hanif

Don't leave my glass empty
Listen to what i want to say

Keep me away from the taverns
I don't want to walk home
The bitter ale is sweet to me
Bring all the booze to my home

Beat me with the horned oak cudgels
Throw me in the streets
But don't worry about my debt
Bring all the booze to my home

Ignore the priests' curses
Foresee my child with the brats
Just keep up in the line of your nose
Bring all the booze to my home

Take the the price of them, take my life
eat the stew, keep my knife
'cause i would never give up wine
so Bring all the booze to my home


You say I'm alone, I'm not alone
See! My child playing there, You see?
See, the smoke coming out of the stove
My lady is cooking, wait! We'd all eat
But before all of this disappear, run
and Bring all the booze to my home

The door's always open
Like you, they come and go
but no one ever returns again

You aint my family, then why dont you return?
My whole world went to the skies
And you try to be like my world!
Never!
Go to that tavern, and do me a favor
Bring all the booze to my home

I don't want to lose that memory
That i still see in this rune
so i keep my memory alive
Don't ket my memory die, go away
and Bring all the booze to my home...

20-07-2008