Gregory Ramos Poet Free verse

Who I Was

you knew who I was 
   
 for years I perfected my cause 
   
 left overseas to a new land 
   
 in beer tents I made a stand 
   
 love lost on the wicks end 
   
 crept in slowly as a friend 
   
 past ripped and tore me 
   
 from a boy to a man 
   
 and gave me hope to carry on 
   
 you did everything to please me 
   
 my life changed  but my mind was my own 
   
 you condoned my drink 
   
 i degraded you in an evil tone 
   
 used the accident to medicate 
   
 my life I lost and no one to  direct 
   
 sought threw poetry and drunken intellect 
   
 all these expectation of me 
   
 tired of the man you think I should be 
   
 i can’t do this on my own 
   
 need a miracle a new thing 
   
 picked up the phone 
   
 you answered on the first ring 
   
“hi my name is bruce and I’m an alcoholic”

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