It started long ago.
I grew up drunk;
raised by a drunken man,
in a broken drunken land.
Generations in the bars,
of the tiny coal town.
with bar stools all their own.
Something happened with grandpa,
He turned to demon drink.
He got sucked in.
His wife and kids grew up poor,
A coal mining family
My dad to be.
The drinking, the cheating,
the gambling and bar fights.
The never home at nights.
The fear when he did come home.
The cussings and beatings,
the devastated feelings.
To love him anyway.
to grow up to be like him.
violent and drunken.
He died long ago.
and this drunken lad,
tried to be a man.
But, what is a real man?
it’s not what I thought.
being in a house of rot.
Living a tough guy life,
in a beer bottle haze.
Days of manly craze.
Till broken by God.
waking up to life
and His guiding hand.
Rock bottom destruction.
To build something new.
Faith and hope grew.
The drunken lad,
grew to a real man.
Despite the curse’s plan.
Bio: Chris Bunton is a writer, poet and blogger from Southern Illinois. He has published in several magazines, and has written a poetry eBook called “Against the Man” and an Addiction Recovery eBook called “Made Free: Overcoming Addiction“ a collection of dystopian short stories.“The Future is Coming” and his latest book “The Latter Days‘ is a book on Bible Prophecy and avoiding the deceptions to come.
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