The Wine

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The bottle - sleek and warm - only curtains the most precious thing alive

The bottle's sworn words are

'None mustn't gaze upon my precious elixir

For thou shall be fated away!'

But none heeded word from the gracious bottle

'Drink me and thou must've be punished for thy's sins!'

Only - alas - to be ignored as before

A traveler crept softly into the bottle's chambers

A ravenous thirst taken by storm

The bottle rose as the traveler neared

'None mustn't gaze upon my precious elixir

For thou shall be fated away!' cried the bottle

The traveler however didn't stop

'Drink me and thou must've be punished for thy's sins!' the bottle cried

'Sins?

A holy man has no sins!' the traveler hollered

'A holy man never sinned in thou's life from birth' the traveler argued

'Aye

But a fallen man does'  was a retort

Enraged, the traveler fisted the bottle

And to pieces it fell

The red elixir thickly ran in the man's hand

Greedily - he drank the delicious elixir - wine

The bottle laughed eerily

'A holy man?

A stupid man i say!' the bottle snapped

'A wise man, a holy man would see

I hold no elixir or wine!'

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