Brewding Poetry

This poem has been added to my new blog along with other poems. It can be found here. "Eve"

I. “New Year’s Eve” Time flies Before we realize Not much time passed at all We keep climbing up The ladder just to fall We’re not where we Wanted to be, no, not at all We’re high or we’re low or between —Drop the damn ball— It’s the first of our last Days coming to a crawl We drink and we drink To cure all —Solutions— It’s useless We realize so we’ll make resolutions To stop it, quit it but quitting’s a delusion Cause we’re hooked or trapped —Whatever you call the illusion— And the last of the last Comes, but how will you spend it? Staring down an empty bottle or the barrel of a gun —Yeah, you blew it— Either way you wasted away this blessing —Goddammit— Treating life like a party Yeah, you were Reckless At least you had fun driving all Defenseless. You had fun, you had fun Yeah, we’ve reached that Consensus. II. “Christmas Eve” What’s this I hear about you serving a life sentence? That’s right it’s just ten years not enough for resentment And it doesn’t matter if you meant it The court of law may be about motive or intentions But not life no, life’s about guilt and guilt’s about repentence Which we all know really means life lessons We learn or burn —Crash and burn— In one and out one ear Like the life you’re messing with when you’re out Out on the town that night in May Maybe you remember Of course I remember Like it was My first Christmas in December I couldn’t sleep A wink from anxiety and the way it tempered My mind for News I’d soon hear though my heart would take years, years, and years to become so weathered Loss all cold all severed Products from that night you delivered Baggage I can’t forget. I wish you’d never… That night My family lost One member.