I kept alcohol at bay for a while

because I was convinced

that life is clearer

without a glass

but then it started

at my first buzz I remembered everything

the high before a fall

the temporary ecstasy worth it all

like a dam ravaged by the ghost of a storm

I fell in wild desperation

the answers to all of life's problems

is not beyond the glass

but at the bottom of it instead

(ni.l)