Take Me Back Poem by xihluke mlangeni

Take Me back to  that time
when i was first introduced to fun
I was young
only seventeen
I had dreams
Wanted to be rich
Take me back to that time
When i first tasted alcohol
I drank it, so hard
That i even forgot i had dreams
Take me  back
I want to  go and pick up my dreams
I left them in that dirty tavern
I wonder if they are still alive
Or they are still drunk?
Only God knows
I want to go back
And make things right
This other day i heard my mom having a conversation with God
And i was the topic
She was crying, mommy kept on bragging about me

'I didn't raise a drunkard'
Indeed she didn't
Peer pressure stood  between me and her


Alcohol is bitter
But a Bmw parked  next to a Golf 7 in a mansion is sweeter

'If poverty is bitter
Then success is sweeter'