Best Poems Written by Sam Santos

Can of Soda

A can
What is it good for?
Holding the soda?
That's what you want it to do
But what if it has a hole
A hole that sucks it dry
Leaving it hollow.
You could patch the hole
But it will be destroyed
Just like any other before.

Found on a store 
Like any other
Sold to anyone
But it comes with a surprise
No soda 
An empty can of soda
how could that be
Isn’t it a can of soda?
How could you expect that
It strays from normal.

Why does everyone love soda?
Is it because the can is pretty?
What does the can do?
Does it have a purpose,
Other than holding soda?
Everyone expects the soda there
But what if it’s not
Will the can be thrown out?
It never had soda
But you only know it now
Does it have no value?

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