Wine

I need to stop listening to love songs so late at night. And I guess my 15-year-old self had good ideas, as this is what it's based off of.

Bottle shaped body?

Maybe that's a compliment

 

I'm not well liked

Rarely loved

If I'm as good as I hope

I'm like wine

With medicinal properties

With time

Trapping me in my own prison of a body

Perhaps my heart and soul

Ferment

And become more potent

As well as an acquired taste

 

Drink me

For the right reason

One didn't

But he only survived

Because inside

He wasn't really alive.

He spat out my wine

And it splattered

Over the floor

Over my face

And my future.

 

Take me in the right

Dosage

If I let you drink me

I want to be rest assured

You'll be alive tomorrow

Next week

Next month

Forever

Take me in the right dosage.

And the right symptom. Reason.

 

If you hog me

Swallow me

Without savoring

I will be the poison

You all fear that I am.

I won't kill you. You will.

It will be your hand that reaches

It will be your mouth that kisses

And sucks

And moans

They will be your last

If you don't drink me wisely.

 

Do you have any idea how long it's been since anyone put their lips to my rim?

No one know's what I taste like anymore.

No one's taken a sip

But I feel so empty.

 

I don't want to poison you.

I want to help you.

I want to be somewhere other than just my bottle.

I think I love you.

 

I'm tired

Of being tucked away

On a dusty shelf

Who the hell am I being saved for?

If God is saving the best for last

I must be the cream of the f*****g crop.

 

Drink me wisely.

I can be medicinal

Or poisonous

 

I don't want another Edward Cullen with bad intentions.

 

If you drink me

You better have the intention of swallowing.

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

I bounced off another poem from someone here on the Cafe, and instead of responding to something he said, I bled onto the page.

Reviews

[perfectlymetiKulous]

Awwww... omg. I just LOVE this.
Fav lines:
"Drink me wisely.

I can be medicinal

Or poisonous"
AND

"If you drink me

You better have the intention of swallowing"

I LOVE IT... and the thing is, you've said so many different things, this can be read and interpreted in so many ways, it's absolutely fantastic.

[~Logic of the Valar~]

Interesting, I like it. Sort of a Poison Ivy, Typhoid Mary feel to it, but with a dash of Nurse Nightengale and Scarlet O' Hare thrown in. Very nice.

[Ebs]

Liked this one. It made me smile. The idea of someone being like a bottle of wine was very clever! I also like the lines where you asked to be drunk in dosages. My favourite lines were defintely:
Who the hell am I being saved for?
If God is saving the best for last
I must be the cream of the f*****g crop.

Thanks for entering the "someone special' contest.

Ebs

[Emily B]

We bounce off one another all the time. Some of my best work was inspired by friends here.

Fine wine ages and mellows becomes smoothe.

[Eagle Cruagh]

You are a good girl.

That was a nice poem.

------Eagle Cruagh

[LisetteCanWrite!]

Wow.. the strength of a woman is to be soooo admired.. you have sooo much passion and it comes out so clearly and poetically in your writing.. I hope you find that special person who learns to drink you in the write quantity... You seem to have a very powerful personality.. like my mom.. just the best! Thank you for sharing your strength.. the power of a woman!