Clean

My father died alone in a hotel

47 years of abuse laid stiff in the bed

I'll never miss the awful human that he was

But I'll remember the lesson that I learned

It's more than a choice

It's a conviction to those I love

To have never have that call

To never feel that loss

My brother died lost in a hotel

9 months before the day that his father would

30 years of life paved for death

My coffin was nailed in his final breath

I won't be so selfish

I won't let my hurt destroy my path

to be a better person

than the examples I was shown as a boy

I commit

to be alive

I won't die for the drugs

that took your life

I will remain clean

I will remain clean

I will remain clean