Warning Label...

This bottle holds nothing
     but it drinks your life
in big gulping swallows,
     without time to allow you
to catch your breath...

This is a Little Death
     an escape from Life,
Time and Strife
     but the same problems remain
when you return from your Oblivion
     and so you also will stay unchanged
unless you strain against the ties that bind,
     listen with ears that give sight to the blind
The Truth as it is spoken is sometimes unkind
     but that is what we need to hear
to keep our heads clear
     and above water
      08-31-10