WE DRANK FOR

We drank for happiness and became unhappy.

We drank for joy and became miserable.

We drank to be outgoing and became self-centered.

We drank for sociability and became argumentative.

We drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious.

We drank for friendship and made enemies.

We drank for sleep and awakened without rest.

We drank for strength and felt weak.

We drank for sex drive and lost our potency.

We drank for relaxation and got the shakes.

We drank for confidence and became doubtful.

We drank for warmth and lost our cool.

We drank for coolness and lost our warmth.

We drank for freedom and became slaves.

We drank for power and were powerless.

We drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity.

We drank medicinally and acquired health problems.

We drank because the job called for it and lost the job.

We drank to make conversation and slurred our words.

We drank to feel heavenly and knew hell.

We drank to forget and were haunted.

We drank to erase problems and saw them multiply.

We drank to cope with life and invited death.

Author Unknown

Got this from my dear friend Ray. Thought I would pass it on to you folks. This poem really resembled me anyway.