Dad

Your family by blood,

Your bottle by choice.

Choosing your weaknesses

Over your strengths.

You show your pain

Instead of your happiness.

Leaving us to swim in 

Your pool of emotions.

Leaving us to drown in

Your pool of emotions.

Your family by blood,

Your bottle by choice.

From very early on, I knew that my dad had a problem with drinking. I knew that he became someone else, an angry presence in the home. As I grew older, I was 14 when I wrote this, I began to see him more clearly, I began to understand alcohol and its effects on the family and children. I was very angry with him, and soon, his anger was directed towards me as well.