Pretty Bottles All Lined Up

How we love to line up bottles on tabletops or shelves.
What we collect in bottles tells us something of ourselves.
Be it pills or perfume or lotions for our skin,
be it liquor bottles or old bottles of our kin.
Be they for forgetting or remembering or curing,
the fact that we see into them is somehow reassuring.

Each bottle opened is no doubt considered well worth keeping,
as applied  or guzzled down, its contents we are reaping.
Hopes or dreams are bottled there––courage, allure or balm.
Their stoppers keep in secrets, unstopped they exude calm.
Pretty bottles on a shelf deserve felicitation
as they meet our eye to please us, or our lips for satiation.