Drink and Be

One should always be drunk.
That's all there is to it; it's the only way.
Not to feel the horrible burden of Time
That breaks your back and bends you to the earth,
You should be continually drunk.

Drunk with what?
With passion, with anger, with outrage or with justice, as you please.
But get drunk.

And if sometimes you should happen to awake,
On the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished,
Ask the wind and the wave, ask the star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks,
Ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply:
'It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk!
With passion, with anger, with outrage or with justice, as you please.'

'Be Drunk' by Charles Baudelaire - 19th century French Poet.