Bottle of Pain
If I could, I would Collect my tears Shed over all those years Over you Infuse them with the fumes of my crushed spirit Adding the bloody nectar from my broken heart. I would put them all in a beautiful bottle Adorned with elegantly scripted lies Only your deceitful eyes can decipher That even fierce rays from the sun Could not penetrate and betray The salty bitterness of this toxic brew. Surreptitiously delivered to you No sender, No return address Labeled only as “Pain, yours and mine” Penned by the hand That you first nervously held On the way to my heart Would you open the bottle, Curious about its cryptic contents Recklessly trying a drop To discover what Despair tastes like? Would you savor a drop of Betrayal followed by another and another? Until you know exactly who from among those Whose hearts and spirits you crushed Would distill such a vengeful potion? I can se...