Coffee, tea and liquor

My friend says:
“Coffee is for a man of steel
who knows how
to get his capital out of it
and tea for a tiller man
who can give direction
in a lighting struck stormy sea
and let the liquor
stay with me
and then for a time
I will be free
Of all my problems.”

Then we didn’t bend a bottle
and did not even
have liqueur or champagne,
but we stayed with tea
and the tiller man
is ashore
while life’s thunders
are striking right around him
and he waits on his ship
to come
and his Angel stands with him.

poem by Gert Strydom
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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