Challenge
Challenge of the Week CCXXXIII
Write a short poem about waking up in drunken regret. On this one, winner is decided by likes. Make it brutal. 25 big ones on the line. Go.
Drunken Regret
The only regret I have at this point is that I am alive,
how could I feel any disdain for the ambrosia that
made me my own god.
I said being drunk was as close to being dead as I could get
and I meant it
and it was glorious.
There is bile crusting my carpet
I could never be bothered to clean and it has
eaten through my floor like
the booze through my liver.
I wish my liver had failed faster than the floorboards,
I wish I kept my acid in my gut
but I burned a hole through my facade.
You sent me away
and locked the liquor up.
The sober set into my veins like lead,
the poison didn't leave my blood for months.
Vision finally clear
the regret hits like shards of amber glass.
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