ALCOHOLISM

We call it simply a disease

So we would bear no shame;

And those who profit from its sale

Would surely bear no blame.

An "addiction" is a better word,

A "disease" it is not;

The "cause" of all the heartache

We seem to have forgot..

Some things are, oh, so very wrong

That words cannot explain;

When little children are abused

And thousands killed or maimed.

So why are we so foolish

To cover up the sin?

To think that in taxation

That we can somehow win.

The tax we get if we are "wet,"

Could not begin to pay

The physical damage it has caused

Or the suffering of "one" day.

But in God's sight on Judgment Day

When men reap what they sow,

The suffering they have caused to man,

The "books" will surely show.

So when it all is said and done,

The victims, one and all;

The greatest killer in our midst