ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

WINE WOMEN AND SONG MINUS ONE
©Vic Jefferies 2001


With practised hand he raised the glass
and sipped the cheap red wine
then in rememberance of the past
he sang of "Auld Lang Syne."

Once again he raised the glass
and proposed a lonely toast:
to all the girls he had kissed
and to the one he missed the most.

Through bleary eyes he sadly gazed
at her picture in its frame,
and wondered where she had gone,
the girl who shared his name,

For she had left him long ago
when the wine had come to stay,
unable to bear to watch him drink -
her dreams and his life away.

What remained to him of the past
was his taste for cheap red wine,
which he drank from a bottomless glass
made to his own design.

And when he died they found by his side,
among the empty bottles on the floor,
the portrait of the wife he'd loved -
stained by the wine he'd loved much more.

Vic Jefferies

I've had to pick up what was left of those sort of people Vic. Many times. Sadly it is just all too frequently seen.


Neville

Thanks for the comment Neville. Too common a story but the booze too often wins.

Life can lead down all sorts of paths.

Enjoyed the read Vic.

Merv.