Given To Wine Poem by Edward Kofi Louis

Filthy lucre!
Given to wine;
Violent,
Quarrelsome,
Covetous,
Vice, novice!
Puffed up with pride.

The ride!
Illegal lust,
Greeedy of filthy lucre;
Vice, device!
Given to wine;
To revile and to persecute others,
In the name of illegal lust.

Life,
In a cruel net;
Caught in a snare! !
Like birds,
Entrapped by the works of evil.

Neglected! !
Rejected,
With greed;
Stake, take, rake, sake, shake, wake, bake, cake, awake!
Wisdom is better than strength;
Wisdom is better than the weapons of war!
Wisdom is able to teach you,
Towards righteous behaviour,
Given to hospitality.

The muse of life,
The ways of peace,
The joy of love! !
With righteous report;
Without hatred and war.

Paste,
Waste,
Inscrutable,
To destroy! !
To ravage,
Unsearchable;
To faint,
Terror, horror!
Fear,
Tear;
Peace is better than war.