I just watched 'My Zinc Bed' and it inspired me...
Murder Wears A Mask
Empty glass stands clean on the shelf,
I went straight for the bottle,
Lips clasped the rim,
As I drank to forget everything,
No notes in the door to say when you were expected back,
And the answer machine was silent,
As the display board hung blank,
I heard the laughter in the background,
Surely it was about anything but me,
However, I felt I was the joke,
For once, possibly,
More torture than a man can consume,
It began to hurt to even look at you,
An inevitable car crash,
With me behind the wheel,
The liquor was flowing,
But meetings could not cure me,
I felt that at a time only you could,
But with no love for my soul,
You left me nowhere to go,
One more drink,
I think,
Then pull the plug on everyone and everything,
And the debate inside of me argued how?
Shooting up way over the limit?
Blocking my airwaves with medication on prescription?
Or to hang like the pathetic c*** I am?
The moon shone high,
Then the ivory doorbell rang,
You had returned,
From an important after show,
My terrible thoughts you would not know
I let you in
I use to fly
I offered you a drink
I use to dance
I slept in the bed with you
My terrible thoughts which you never knew,
For drink torments you,
Drink haunts you,
Drink poisons you,
An then it f***ing kills you
The masked murderer of seduction,
You never know when it shall arrive,
So you kept sipping away,
Smiling beautifully,
But when it arrives,
When it is ‘that day’,
God, it hits you like a f***ing bullet train,
And you contemplate everything and all the pain,
Inflicted upon yourself, and your loved ones,
Those to who you promised,
‘One more and then never again’,
You fake and you joke,
You lie to yourself
AA will not stop me,
I have gone,
Far beyond,
The point of return,
I reach for the vodka bottle,
With guilt which rips me apart,
Once again,
Oh Lord, I’ll never learn
Love PTxx