Destruction's Prey

Poetics Aside Pad Challenge day 5: For today’s prompt, write a self-destruct poem.

Tip that bottle that destroys

Happy homes of  girls and boys

Beats the shark at his own game

Marksman of folly and shame

Not the fruit that bears the blame

Tip the bottled mottled with

Toast of boast and prideful pith

Laugh; love's earnest caution shirk

Ruin does not rush its work 

Poured from gourds where demons lurk

Tip the bottle full of lies 

Drink The Master of Disguise

Revel where hell-devils play

Reeling in Destruction's prey

Truth will have the final say

Janet Martin

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine 
And valiant men in mixing strong drink, 
Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!…

Isa.5:21-23