Which came first? <br /> <br />the booze or the poet? <br /> <br />Would there be poems without pain? <br /> <br />would the sky never weep with rain? <br /> <br />Could Poe have lived without <br /> <br />the pain of love, <br /> <br />could the Marquis have lived <br /> <br />without the love of pain? <br /> <br />You mistake me Madam <br /> <br />for someone else <br /> <br />I am myself <br /> <br />True that I am not 'your' kind <br /> <br />I am honest with myself <br /> <br />born of the presence of mind <br /> <br />to know right from wrong <br /> <br />without some silly psalm song. <br /> <br />I would know how to love you <br /> <br />if there wasnt that indellible <br /> <br />wall of religion that surrounds you. <br /> <br />The one that separates us all. <br /> <br />Let us take our holy sacriments <br /> <br />our birthright <br /> <br />as one another. <br /> <br />drink from the waters of life. <br /> <br />drink from each other. <br /> <br />issue into our lives <br /> <br />a brand new day <br /> <br />when words have no meaning <br /> <br />nothing more to say <br /> <br />when a gaze and a smile <br /> <br />is all thats needed. <br /> <br />I may be a dreamer <br /> <br />but I'm not the only one.<br /><br />Samael Wolf<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/booze-and-poetry/
