The Bottle Poem by Lindy Jean Kleinhans

By LJK

Looking back, I never thought
That this was how I could be bought
Subdue, subside the memories inside
Push them down like cyanide

Just help me forget this one last time
Make it better for me to rhyme
Help me forget about this hole inside
Take me away and make me hide

It never lasts, it's always there
I feel my heart begin to tear
I thought I should, I never would
did it anyway because I could

It took predestined fate to see
that this was just not it for me
I had to change for better or worse
Or I'll end up with a sordid curse

Just that accident that one night
Was all it took to see the light
Everything leads me up to this
Eternal knowing is such bliss

The friend who put that safety belt on
You bid me farewell and I was gone
I took to the road, knowing all too well
The drink in me would cause me hell

Blacked out behind the wheel
With death waiting at my heel
But…. there was something in the air that night
My guardian angel took to flight

Miner scrapes and bruises though
As I watched them take my car to tow
I should have been dead, this I know
It's been 10 months now, with no bottle to show