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Mudassir PZ Oct 2017
I collect emotions, like stamps
No one I can show them to
Some hurt, some chafe
But I keep them all very safe

All that my mind sees
All that my body experiences
Remain trapped in a cyst
Almost as big as my fist

I am a bottle – I think.
Can't say "I feel" that way
Because, I'm not sure
I can do that anymore.

My lid sealed tight
Filled from the inside
Forever brimming
Yet, never spilling

Happiness seems extinct
Desolation in every precinct
Of mind and heart
Both equally torn apart
Sam Oct 2017
She said "Pick your poison"
and I must admit
Her selection was quite impressive
Bottle after bottle
Each unique in it's figure
No single one containing a liquid of the same shade.
Some older than me
Others predating my father

When my eyes finished scanning
as if they even had to
My words came out softly
Possibly to lull her troubled mind
"The only thing in this room I pick, is to have you in my life. Forever til the end."
afteryourimbaud Sep 2017
I believe
that there is a life
somewhere out there
that is waiting for
a meteoric burst
in it.

But life is still
just a life
if it decides
not to leave
the uncorked bottle.
19/9/2017
Sam Pagunuran Aug 2017
A bottle of red
Drunk—I'm seeing stars, I cry—
They were blinding me.
Jellyfish Jul 2017
Though I know I shouldn't,
it's as if I'm floating in brine.
You know I'm feeling something,
when I come here and think up rhymes
just to try and express what's usually
kept bottled up inside.
Right now, I just want to hide.
Ana Jul 2017
It just rained.

The sky is pale blue and
the wind is surely pleasing.
I might just think that the weather is perfectly made for me.

I see some tables and chairs,
some drinks and snacks,
some variety of people
I only see during this time of the day
and only during this kind of weather.

It's 6 PM and
it's almost as dark
as the deepest of the night.
The sky now is indigo blue
and the moon is already peaking.
It's smiling.
And god, what I'd do to smile like that.

I see drinks, I am holding a cup of rootbeer
while my friends hold a cup of red horse.

We talk about life, and how scary it is to live;
we talk about ending it, and the many ways we could consider trying;
we talk about enduring it, and how strong we are to have ourselves survive 'til today;
and we talk about staying, just because we're still here.

Though we're barely breathing,
we are here,
and just like the moon tonight,
with the cup of rootbeer in my hand
and with the cup of red horse they have,
we are smiling.

It's almost 8 PM and
the wind is still as pleasing.
It's touching my skin
and
it gives me a different feeling.
I see hands holding a grip to its last cup of beer;
I see eyes looking down, sleepy;
I see eyebags which I guess I can say as deep as the night;
I see crooked teeth;
I see imperfection.

Though we are as imperfect,
we are smiling,
we survived,
we're on our way home
with car lights reflecting on our faces.

We wave goodbye to the bottle of beer for two and my rootbeer.
We made it through the night.
Star BG Jun 2017
I put my dream list and prays into a glass bottle. The green vessel captured the sun transmuting into facets of beauty.  I stood firmly and with a swinging hand tossed it into oceans current. I watched as it moved sideways. I watched it merge in breeze hoping it would get into sacred hands.

I felt the energy as wind carried it outward. The bottle twisted and turned bobbing up and down gracefully. I watched through binocular lenses strong. I watched as eyes widened inside an amazing sight.

It was a gentle cloud fairies hand picking container up in the mist. In passing moment bottle and hand disappeared. Vanished into an angel cloud, as I drifted below rainbow sky.

StarBG © 2017
just thinking about a bottle drifting with a message inside and this poem was born
Branden Youngs Jun 2017
I tried everything to silence the monsters that are in control.
Unspeakable methods
just to save my soul.

Attempted drowning them with every bottle I could find.
Till the alcohol completely flooded my mind.
I passed countless ladies through my bed.
Praying their moans would quiet the voices in my head.
Late nights spent numb and floating endlessly from the narcotics.
Out of reach from the monsters before I turned psychotic.

My intentions were honorable
but my design ******* unforgivable.

Endless hours trying to put my monsters in a grave.
I became the devil and now these demons are my slaves.
Jellyfish Jun 2017
I wish I wouldn't bottle things up so often. I underestimate my feelings, and wind up hurting. It's truly the worst feeling of all, when the smallest of things end up breaking the bottle. All I want really is to express myself freely without overthinking everything that runs through my mind.
im sorry if sometimes i come off as over emotional.
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