My Roots

My Roots, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

once destroyed
by alcoholic intake
an addiction i
tried but finally
did shake ,,
those perspiring
night withdrawal
nightmares that
kept me awake
early morning
utara for drinkings
sake a thirst a
new bottle would
not slake ,,a habit
i tried to break
the lonesome
attacks of
fear heartache
yacht casbah
irani janta
memories
keepsake
hope died
slurring
soliloquy
my footsteps
leading me
to my earliest
mistakes


now finally
detached
from the bottle
i did forsake
trampled beneath
my feet the fangs
of the snake
took up photography
shifted the intoxication
drunken dilemma
of the pictures
i make ..juggling
words like empty
beer bottles
poetic orgasms
i fake ,,,unlearning
photography ..
take after take