I Forget

I forget Alcoholism 101:

The sober life teaches us to hide

the truths that are brutal.

Then,

the alcoholic speaks it out...

harshly.

The alcoholic doesn't perceive the pain.

He's impulsive, bawdy, unnecessarily honest.

We forgive him and excuse him

because he is only drunk, it will pass.

I forget how pain is always picked up:

The drunken life taught him to deny

the ones who are sincere.

Especially,

the one who is foolish enough

to love him.

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[Dr. Wood ?]

I had a very close friend die from such a disease...no-one understood it seemed to me.....