The Bottle

It was emptied unexpectedly last night.

Then again, when is it ever expected?

People and others fill this bottle

One grain of black sand at a time.

They enter the bottle without an escape.

Over time, grains and grains of black sand

Stack one on top of the other

Squeezed and packed

As tightly together as possible.

There is no escape.

What is done is done.

It could take days, months, even years

to fill this bottle

But when it is full,

it must be emptied.

The only way to empty it

Is to BURN IT...

BURN IT with the hottest flame you can find.

BURN IT.

BURN IT until the grains and glass

Begin to melt together

And you can no longer protect the bottle

From the grains.

The bottle is finally forced to deal with the grains

All at once.

The bottle feels the largest amount

Of pain and discomfort

when it is melting into the black sand.

This is how it empties.

Something burns it until it doesn't exist anymore.

Then, when no one is looking,

An empty bottle appears again...

And the vicious cycle continues. ©2010 Olivia Thai