Family Trait

This time two years back

I figured I could just start drinking

In order to keep it up, that life

Suddenly all those uncles made sense

See, you had sobered up so I thought

I could pick up your slack. 

I was already so good at corking

The bottles you left open to the air

Always there in the morning to tell you

I would always be there in the morning

All I could see were more mornings

And I searched for some way to bear it.