Do not get all bottled up inside*

Do not get all bottled up inside*

In a world of confused perimeters that seem to be within

Chaos all around, to arrive at peace where does one begin?

Going back and forth, in one's "mind" to be relieved

The temptation becomes greater, in what has been perceived

Now it seems that one got into this and created such a mess

It is that very same one that can leave it and let all come to rest

Yes, it is something that one made up on the way through life

Giving it attention and carrying all the burdens of strife

So that one sees now that it really was not there

The more that one walked away from this in becoming well aware

Something ever so close that becomes freedom and to let loose

Like how the bottle had its prisoner, that housed a long neck goose

But the goose was never the prisoner for it never was of this

The bottle was the illusion and did not ever exist

For in a way it was something that became of a doubt

And a personal prison in a ZEN* koan but that one is now out

Dom*Colucci 2013