Drink It Away

Take a drink,
It will soothe your pain,
You never did think,
That you were sane.

As the bullets pass you by,
And you live to tell your story,
You drop to your knees to ask "why?",
As you take another drink from your forty.

You're still alive,
But you don't want to be,
You don't live but just survive,
And for mercy you fall to your knees.

You collapse and pass out,
Face down on the floor,
In your breathe you can smell the doubt,
You can't take it anymore.

You tried to drink away your problems,
Just to wake up worse than you began,
The answer is within how you solve them,
And without fixes you can.