"Save One"

First convo, save one
. A chat amongst the first
. . I said you had ten years
. . . To satisfy your thirst.

. . . Now a decade more
. . The drinking hums along
. It helps you with your life
It helps you with your song.

But you recall that night
. The night when'ere we spoke
. . As now a New Year dawns
. . . Will you apply the yoke?
January 1, 2010