Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Family Disease

Early in my life I knew that

Both Mom and Dad did drink too much,

Causing our home habitat

To be a time and place of such

Unhappiness with stress and strife.

Learning they both had a disease,

I drank no booze in my young life,

Fearing the same propensities.

But when I left home and went out

Into the world all on my own,

Booze became my best friend no doubt,

My life worse than my folks had known.

Best advice to myself I think,

An alcoholic should not drink.