Poems About Alcohol

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I TOO NEED HELP

What is your name : Nancy Myers

Who do you want the poem written for: My mom

Why do you want the poem written: well my mom is 46 and she is a major alcoholic and she doesnt understand how bad she hurts us kids. She will go up to the bar almost every night. She get really drunk then she comes home and goes to sleep. Well she has been traveling for like 15 years for her job (she is a computer person) and i never get to see her and it makes me really sad like the last two years she was gone on my birthday and it made me cry myslelf to sleep and it like i just wanted to die. Everytime she comes home from a long trip she always goes uptown befor she comes and to see her kids.It makes me wanna cry and when she comes home from her long trips and she acually comes home to see us she always says I NEED MY ALOCOHOL! and it makes me wann just go an shoot myslef and i know i am going through depression right now. Because we think my mom has lung diseas from all her drinking and she wont go to the doctor. Everytime i try to talk to her she wont talk cause she doesnt want to talk about and everytime i try to ask her why drinking is more important than her family she says "the only reson i am an alcoholic is because all catholics are alocoholics" and it makes me wanna cry more and i just wanted to you write a poem about this so i everytime i read it i have a memory of my mom when she is not home or when she is up town drinking. please and thank you very much
xoxo nancy

What style of poem would you prefer (happy, sad, romantic etc.): sad

Please choose which package you would prefer : Deluxe

Would you like a copy of the handwritten drafts : Yes

What are the key messages you would like to send: that i love my mom and i want her to stop drinking for her kids and she needs to know how much she is hurting us kids when she drinks so much

Do you have any funny, sad, happy, embarrassing or otherwise memorable moments that you would like to share: yes i would like to add that about 1 year ago we used to go skating every friday with my mom and i just want those days back i want to be able to spend time with my mom more often

I TOO NEED HELP

Hello, my wonderful drunken mother,
if it's okay, I'd like to have a word,
and I'm already uncomfortable,
actually, this really is quite absurd.

As I'm supposed to be the teenager,
and yes, you're all of 46 years of age,
but I feel like I'm acting out my life,
and look, I'm dying, here on center stage.

You don't understand how bad you've hurt us,
you go to the bar almost every night,
you get really drunk, come home, fall asleep,
your spark gone, what gets left on is the light.

I know you've been traveling for 15 years,
I also know your job doesn't flame your soul,
but I get so sad, never get to see you,
is it not time you played a mother's role?

The last two years you have missed my birthday,
no, not for us, memories we can keep,
instead, you went off, getting drunk somewhere,
while I'm at home, crying myself to sleep.

After a trip away, you go uptown,
first, I NEED MY ALCOHOL, you cry,
that just makes me want to go and shoot myself,
I'll explain, or at least, I'll give it a try.

You see, I'm so depressed, you have lung disease,
and you can't keep walking the track you are on,
because the dullness of the whiskey jar, well,
it's replaced the love, where your light once shone.

Remember skating every Friday?
Look mother, you need good help, please get some,
because if I put my feelings in just one line,
I TOO NEED HELP, MOTHER, I NEED MY MOM.
 

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