Guinness

Guinness,

It’s the third one I love

Indescribable warmth,

From heaven above

 

It lights up the night

Like a spark from the sky

It is no wonder

No question, no why.

That I took to the drink

Like a man possessed

It dealt with a life

So utterly stressed

 

It loved me

And boy did it care

With friends I could talk

I could so openly share.

    

The drink, the drink

I can long for its taste

But to take it now

A life it would waste.

I am free thank goodness

From a head so mad

Without the auld Guinness

It isn’t so bad.

From time to time

It calls out my name

But I try to remember

The guilt and the shame

 

Of the end of my drinking

That bottomless pit

At the mercy of terror

And a rage induced fit

 

I’ve accepted this way

Of living and am at ease

God is my helper

He’s given me the keys

Of a life with new peace

And an indescribable joy

For the devil of a man

When the drink had this boy.