Deadly Elixir
Just to sit back and watch someone
pounding them down.
Do they not know that the laughter will
someday turn to a frown.
Can they not see what they’re
doing to us?
When it is brought up, this subject
they just can’t discuss.
Can’t they see what they’re doing to
their lives.
And what about their friends, their
children and their wives?
Everything is covered over with an opaqueness
so they don’t have to see,
The devastation being caused by this lethal
“cup of tea”.
It seems that their troubles they think
they can drown,
By just drinking one more cola, with just one
more shot of Crown.
I had to write this because I’ve lost friends and
my husband this way,
and I just can’t believe there’s a drink in this world, that
is worth the price they had to pay.
Copyright: May 21, 2006
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