Excommunication
“IT IS ORDERED that the defendant be placed on probation, and the defendant shall … not consume intoxicants at any time or any place, and not be present in a place where the sale of alcohol is the major business.”
I was most sad when they
said unto me,
Let’s go into the house
where ale is poured,
And tenebral, cool spirits
flow down free:
For from such houses I have
now been barred.
My sin has gated me on every
side
From every type of liquid
reverence.
The judge’s writ has bound
my will and tied
Me to a bleak, unwilling
temperance.
When I recall this, I pour out my soul:
For I had gone in with the multitude
To this , or to some other watering hole,
With voice of praise and joyful attitude.
But now the streets are
dark; my friends inside
The merry meeting place
think not of me.
Communion with them there I’ve
been denied,
I’m excommunicated by
decree.
Yet in the life to come, I
will imbibe
The Beer of beer and sip the
Wine of wines,
All glory to the Bartender
ascribe,
And worship at that holy pub
betimes.
© 2014 – Paul Erlandson
