THE ROAD TO OBLIVION

 

As a school kid

It was cider first

Then as a student

Wine came second

Then as a worker

The vodka came third

 

But it doesn’t stop there

So have a care and beware

 

Out every night

Drinking trebles

Never slowing down

Even seeing double

They never slow down

Never have a single

 

But it doesn’t stop there

So have a care and beware

 

Before breakfast

One eye opener

Mid morning at the office

Two snifters in the loo

A liquid lunchtime

Three large ones do it

 

But it doesn’t stop there

So have a care and beware

 

The lost weekends

Come first

Then the tremours

Follow a close second

Cirrhosis of the liver

Takes its place in third

 

But it doesn’t stop there

So have a care and beware

 

I’m only a social drinker

The first denial

I can stop if I want too

The second denial

I’m in control of the drink

The third denial

 

But it doesn’t stop there

So have a care and beware

 

In a gutter covered in vomit

Not for the first time

Coming round in casualty

More than the second time

Surrounded by medics

No way back the third time

 

It stops there