I've had too much to drink today by Precious

One Poem Only · Aug 8, 2025 · 1m

I've had too much to drink today

The haze of smoke blurs the edges of my deepest musing

and leads my mind to wonder

Like a restless traveler

These songs I ruminate on are

the blood curling around my ribs

echoing stories I don’t want to hear

of a beautiful ingenue I once knew

One I feel, I am losing

In the dead of morning I sleep in silence

But I can still feel the hum of the stars

repositioning themselves in my sky

How was I an ingenue at seventeen

Eyes wide open to endless possibilities

and then-hollowed out.

Just smoke and shadows at 23?

Will they still want me??

When the afterglow fades…