Release - certainly. What I need <br />However is not the occasional liberty <br />Of chemical calm, bottled jollity, <br />But the real freedom of an unchained mind: <br />Freedom to breathe, see, think clearly, <br />And be the man I think I know I am <br />And not the one inside the can. <br /> <br />I recognise before I find the happiness I feel sometimes <br />Denied, that all I need for laughter's there in living, <br />And drinking - drinking only leaves <br />A mess: a little harder to clean up each time. <br /> <br />No more on account of me will the evening's laughter <br />Be the morning's sorry consolation. <br />No more the frightened reconstruction - what said? what done? <br />No more the frivolous release <br />Of care, control, restraint. <br /> <br />And through regret and broken teeth, <br />The taste of resolution comes. <br />This time, I think, I've had enough.<br /><br />David Tremain<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-oath-of-temperance/
