Married To The Bottle Poem by Pen Anthony

After the accident
Everything changed
I for one changed
Peace within eluded me
Until i soaked my soul in alcohol

Life lost its meaning
I was the reason
My daughter would grow up
Without a mother
So i let my mother move in

She wouldn't have her mother
But she would have my mother
Thinking about my loss
I knew it was tougher for her
She lost her mother,
And her father to the bottle.

I promised myself I'd stay sober
But soon I'd find myself cuddling the bottle
This was no way to live
But it seemingly did make life worth living