He was always an enemy of the bottle
Preached against it
Taught the kids that even 4% was dangerous
All of a sudden the job loss came
Then the economic meltdown
Followed by the nagging and the hunger
He found a friend in the bottle
Carried it's perfume everywhere
Embraced even 40% freely
Forgot all about integrity and the children looking up to him
The headache came at first
High temperature and fever
Vomiting and the ulcer
With the little he borrowed
The doctor told him he couldn't do anything about the liver
Then he remembered
there was some one he could run to
The reason he was against the bottle in the first place
He went down
On all fours
Like a little repentant child
The Father embraced him
Health came first
Restoration followed eventually
He made it his duty
To preach against the bottle