No pills today, no wine, no beer, just the soft
Fizz in my mouth of carbonated water.
No reading today, my books are all closed,
The words like petals
Pressed between pages bound in leather
On a dusty shelf.
The clock ticks but tells no time, the radio
Crackles and hisses,
The dial set adrift between channels, the white
Noise of abstinence is loud.
No surfing the internet searching for quotes
By Charles Bukowski,
No trying to write like Dylan Thomas or sing
Like Johnny Cash.
Just me and the overwhelming sound of abstinence,
Sipping carbonated water
From a plastic bottle wishing it was wine. Where
Is Jesus when I need him most?
Dennis Moriarty was born in London, England and now lives in Wales. Married with five grown up offspring Dennis likes walking the dog in the mountains, reading and writing.
In 2017 he won the Blackwater poetry competition and went to county Cork in Ireland to read his work at the international poetry festival. Dennis has had poems featured in many publications including Blue nib, Our poetry archive, Setu bilingual, The passage between and others.
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