Message in a Bottle

When I was younger, I remember wanting to write my own bottled messages and to toss them into the lake from the dock or ferry. The sea and all it possesses has forever fascinated me.

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

A bottled message once unspoken

Found its way onto the shore.

Its dungeon cell was broken

And the bolt fell from the door.

And the waves of deep emotion

Poured out freely from the cap

As a never ending ocean

Streaming from a constant tap.

And the passion written long ago,

Seeping from the unleashed store,

Gushed about amid the forceful flow –

As a bottle once before.