Brilliance in a Bottle

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If I could find brilliance in a bottle

I'd drink it day and night 'til I breathed me last

Maybe then I'd be intelligent enough

To avoid things that have hurt me in the past.

Maybe then I could write a decent poem

Maybe then I'd complete my dreams

Finish a story, follow through with my goals

All of those silly, trivial things.

If only I could find brilliance in a bottle

Well, I'd sell it off to every fool

Because God knows a fool's got nothing to do

Except be played by a life so cruel.

For a fool's only desire is to not be a fool at all

To prove to the others that they're not naive

To show 'em all their wit, wisdom, and smarts

To not be a fool on the day that they leave.

A fool would dream and scheme of ways to get ahead

Oh, if only they could find some way!

To cast away their foolishness, consume a bit of brilliance

Somewhere, somehow, someday.

And if only I could find brilliance in a bottle

It would surely be a day to remember

Because if I could drink it down, breathe brilliance in me

Then maybe I wouldn't be a fool forever.