Sense Sonnet - Acher

Journey to the Bottom

Born on a mountaintop in wild Wyoming.
Alcoholic Doc dropped me on my butt.
Had a good family upbringing,
But most folks thought me one weird nut.
I was sober for 17 years,
Then went to the university.
Majored in assorted liquors and beers,
Graduated with an alcoholic degree.
Next 20 years I drank and I drugged.
Life revolved 'round getting drunk, getting high.
While I guzzled, snorted, smoked and chugged,
I was living dead as life passed me by.

1990 - no more hell could I take.
Hit bottom, when I jumped into the lake.