Champagne Memories

Champagne Memories

Champagne memories
Beer bubbled life
Clouded through the roundness
A seeming joy through strife.

Shrouded, darkened bottles
Stacked against the wall,
A billion bubbles later
The fortress takes a fall.

In drunken desperation
In flight of stumbling shrew,
A call to end the madness,
To halt the lust for brew!

Every morning head on fire
A swear to quit to day!
Every evening resolution
Tomorrow be the way!

At last the lust came screaming,
Bursting to a halt,
Final determination
To end the ale and malt!

Admission to a wise man
A counselor, so to speak,
Caused to finally end the madness
And turn the other cheek.

I stopped right then and there
Not more a drop to drink
Now my daily dose of bubbles
Aerates from the kitchen sink!

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