Into the blue... (POETRY MONTHLY)

Into the Blue…..

 

Into the blue, she said, is that what you want to do

Do you really think that is gonna solve it for you

Why don't you admit what we all know to be true

You're a liar, a thief and an alcoholic too

 

No one likes you, in this family here

Just thought I’d tell you, so it's very clear

We wish you were gone the hell away from here

So just that you know, and it's all very clear

 

I can’t make it any more planer, my dear

Why don't you just leave, it’ll be easier all round

The children will have some peace

We’ll all be sound

 

So you're going to commit suicide, well good luck with that

It's a threat I’ve heard a few times before

So it ain’t that big a shock

I say do it, do it, get it done

Then we’ll all be free to have some fun

 

We don't like you in this family here

With the arguments you cause, generating such fear

With your nasty way of being, cutting others down clean

The way you carry on, Jesus it’s obscene

 

Did I mention we don’t like you in this family here

Sail off, and go to hell, why don’t you my dear

I don’t love no more, and it’s been a long time since

That I’ve had feelings of warmth towards you

You and all that alcohol, can’t you see the coincidence

 

You ain't the man, I thought you once was

You a drunk, an idiot, a fool, and a slob

You should be ashamed of yourself, look at you now

How you shake and hallucinate, and at time talk to the cows

 

That's, the cows that don't actually exist

Except inside your drink sodden brain

Where you can’t even see the pain you're causing to this family of ours

As you spend our finances on people you meet

 

In the bars and clubs you repeatedly frequent

Keep going there till all our money is spent

Living it up, like the fool what you are

Why I’m stuck here wondering how to feed our children

 

I hate and detest you, you know that, my dear

Never have I uttered such honest words to another human, I swear

So if you’ve any sense of honour, and your going do what you say

I myself will drive you to the deep ocean blue

 

Just to make sure you do what you say you're going to do

I will watch and celebrate, as you sink, struggle and drown

Then the children and I will be free, as we have the right to be

Did I mention somewhere, we don't like you in this family here

 

Those were the last words I remember, as I walked to the clifftop edge

With the images of my children, and all those words left unsaid

At least I was a man of honor, doing what I said I was going to do

Stepped off that cliff, into the deep ocean blue.