Reflections in My Beer
written by: Jake Cosmos Aller
@aller_jake
I sit staring at my beer
Listening to music
Wanting what I cannot have
Desiring what I should not
Dreaming dreams I dare not
As I stare into my reflection
Floating in the glass of beer
I see an old man
Staring out at me
Bemoaning his lost youth
And wanting it over again
As I drink the beer
Trying to forget
Hoping to forget
All that I loved
And that had loved me
The past does not forget
And my past loves
Stare out at me
From deep within the beer
Reflections of my past love
And I sit and watch
And cry asleep
Just another man
Crying in his lonely beer
As the night wears on
And the images
Continue to float
Across the beer
At last home alone
With my dismal thoughts
Memories of what might have been
And memories of what may yet be
Continue to dance in my head
As I toss and turn
Trying to dispel these thoughts of mine
That haunts my beer and my dreams
Men drink to forget
Men drink because
They have so many regrets
Regrets, I have so many
Dreams I have so many
And loves, I have had so few
And I wish I could forget
But I can not
I can not
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