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I pop off my scalp like the lid of a cookie jar.
It's the secret place where I keep all my dreams.
Little balls of sunshine, all rubbing together like a bundle of kittens
I reach inside with my thumb and forefinger and pluck one out.
It's warm and tingly.
But there's no time to waste! I put it in a bottle to keep it safe.
And I put the bottle on the shelf with all of the other bottles.
Happy thoughts, happy thoughts, happy thoughts in bottles, all in a row.
My collection makes me lots of friends.
Each bottle a starlight to make amends.
Sometimes my friend feels a certain way.
Down comes a bottle to save the day.
Night after night, more dreams.
Friend after friend, more bottles.
Deeper and deeper my fingers go.
Like exploring a dark cave, discovering the secrets hiding in the nooks and crannies.
Digging and digging.
Scraping and scraping.
I blow dust off my bottle caps.
It doesn't feel like time elapsed.
My empty shelf could use some more.
My friends look through my locked front door.
Finally, all done. I open up, and in come my friends.
In they come, in such a hurry. Do they want my bottles that much?
I frantically pull them from the shelf, one after the other.
Holding them out to each and every friend.
Each and every bottle.
But every time I let one go, it shatters against the tile between my feet.
Happy thoughts, happy thoughts, happy thoughts in shards, all over the floor.
They were supposed to be for my friends, my friends who aren't smiling.
They're all shouting, pleading. Something.
But all I hear is echo, echo, echo, echo, echo
Inside my head.
In the poem, "Bottles", Dan Salvato, uses bright words and imagery to describe a darker emotion.
The poem begins innocently and describes how the narrator wants to help her friends.
Bright words are replaced by darker ones like "frantic" and "shatter".
Salvato is trying to demonstrate how someone feels when they devote their lives to pleasing everyone.
It begins with good intentions, but goodwill can be abused.
Trying to please everyone one is emotionally draining and requires the narrator to always try her best.
When the narrator gives her friends a bottle of happiness a piece of her disappears.
Salvato illustrates this best when the narrator has to start exploring every nook and cranny to find the elusive bottles of happiness.
The poem is saying that living to please is not a life worth living.
True friends would go through the same struggle the narrator does to make their friends happy.
Friendship requires giving as well as taking.
Comparing friendship to spelunking was a well thought out analogy.
It shows that friendship is powerful and taxing at the same time.
Source: Doki Doki Literature Club
"Bottles" by Dan Salvato

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