Another Rum - If you please

ANOTHER RUM – IF YOU PLEASE

Another rum – if you please
It helps me cope in the hour of need

Dulling emotions – quietens thoughts
Probably the best tranquilliser to be bought

For no prescription needs to be signed
To promote my happiness – release my mind

Constant reminders pushed in my face
Of happier times and happier place

Another large rum – if you please
It helps me through my hour of need

Hide from your guilt dismiss your past
Only in memories our love will last

Six months now passed since you tore me apart
Left an empty shell and lacerated heart

Outwardly fun and enjoying life
Still bearing the scars of the jagged knife

Another large rum – if you please
I want it now through my hours of need

Helplessly lost without any direction
One aim in life my own protection

Barriers erected – defences armed
So no one else will cause me harm

Instinctive is the will to survive
Remain a person to stat alive

Another large rum – if you please
Many more now like the hours of need

Coping with life from day to day
There has to be a simpler way

Outward appearances remaining deceptive
Of you my thoughts are all collective

Happier memories of days long passed
From your love I have to fast

Another large rum – if you please
Dulled into oblivion all my hours of need

Now I look back and count the cost
For it is my sanity I have lost

Stooped so low seeking my salvation
And found not hope only depravation

Another large rum – if you please
A compulsion now to fulfil my need

A new direction I have now chosen
All my emotions hard and frozen

Gathering speed on the downward slope
Life is for living – but not without hope

As for the Rum – I need no more
For now I pass through the final door

No more to drink – my needs distilled
Never my love only my blood is spilled

Dedicated to Jason 1989