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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353239" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>With Assistance You Can Win Back Your Pride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not an ''alkie'' but I enjoy a drink, <br>My intake I can never remember, <br>My friends are saying I'm on the brink, <br>Of the pub I'm an honorary member.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never take notes of how much I've had, <br>Nor how many times I go out, <br>They look upon me as a Jack the lad, <br>I certainly don't behave like a lout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am I aggressive well that would depend? <br>I don't go looking for fights, <br>But if I'm pushed myself I'll defend, <br>I'm entitled to protect my rights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I miss the odd workday here and there, <br>But that's nothing to do with the booze, <br>So before you start let me make you aware, <br>I will always do what I choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drink has no bearing on my state of health, <br>I'm as fit as an athlete I'd say, <br>I'll admit it does take its toll on my wealth, <br>But I'm fine when I get my next pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always had company but not anymore, <br>They're saying I was becoming a pain, <br>When drinking my aggression would come to the fore, <br>I'll never speak to any of them again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I drink alone now I can take what I like, <br>I'm sick of them nipping my head, <br>Every one of them can go take a hike, <br>I enjoy getting out of my head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I buy from superstores and corner shops, <br>You get far more booze for your money, <br>In the public bars you get charged for their slops, <br>With my cargo I'm the bee in the honey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've lost my job now why I don't know, <br>They're saying I was out of control, <br>Being blind drunk at work I'd hit a new low, <br>A hair of the dog I would always extol.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't have a problem despite what they say, <br>That's what I wanted to believe, <br>At least that's the message I was trying to convey, <br>It was myself I was trying to deceive. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I controlled alcohol not the other way round, <br>My dependency I would try to defend, <br>All over the house there was drink to be found, <br>My condition I could no longer defend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next thing I knew I had lost my house, <br>My wife couldn't stand all the lying, <br>She said my behaviour was that of a louse, <br>That she couldn't bear to watch me dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My children and parents tried their best, <br>But their moaning I could no longer stand, <br>They were just the same as all the rest, <br>Being deceitful and so underhand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My ill health was something I wouldn't admit, <br>Though at times it made me quite pensive, <br>Despite my state I refused to quit, <br>My addiction was far too extensive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked in the mirror and thought of the cost, <br>Was this worth losing all that I love? <br>Staring back was this stranger I thought I had lost, <br>This was divine intervention from above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm an alcoholic I finally admitted, <br>The reality then hit me in the face, <br>The pieces of this jigsaw finally fitted, <br>To those around me I have been a disgrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was then I tasted some humble pie, <br>Friends and family then all rallied round, <br>They told me they didn't want to see me die, <br>Working together a new start could be found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My liver was ravaged beyond repair, <br>Though it's not alcohol, on which I'll lay blame, <br>The fault lies with me, fair and square, <br>Blaming others well that's pretty lame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm well on the road to recovery now, <br>No alcohol is how I must live, <br>It's now I admit I was addicted and how, <br>Abuse of alcohol just does not forgive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a road back that you can pursue, <br>But only you and you alone can decide, <br>If you have the willpower to see it through, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'' With Assistance You Can Win Back Your Pride ''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bri+Mar">Bri Mar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353239" data-title="With Assistance You Can Win Back Your Pride de Bri Mar" data-description="I'm not an ''alkie'' but I enjoy a drink, My intake I can never remember, My friends are saying I'm on the brink, Of the pub I'm an honorary member. 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