Drink With Me Poem by James Casey

Drink With Me

Come sit at my table, raise up a bottle
And drink to commotion And toast to my fate

Please stay like a lover, And buy me another
Cling to my words when the hour is late

Come cling to my words when tomorrow is closer
Yesterday feels like a lifetime away

What yesterday brought I will tell you tomorrow
Tonight I must drown it I beg you to stay

My nail-bitten fingers the blood on my knuckles
Have witnessed a story so basic to tell

With carnal distraction and too many bottles
I'll fend off the ghosts and forget about hell

There isn't much time now so join me in chorus
Shout down the angels from heaven so high

Come join me in laughter and sheer desperation
Of having to end this hysterical lie

Come raise me a bottle and drink to confusion
Drink to illusions of pureness and trust

So come here tomorrow I promise a story
Be the witness of love that turned into dust

Jim 1961