Message In a Bottle
In June of 1886,
A German sailor tossed
A bottle with a message
Overboard, where it got lost.
The ship, en route to Indonesia,
Left from Cardiff, Wales,
The bottle an experiment
To track the currents’ trails.
A woman walking on the shore
This January glanced
Upon the sand and what she saw
Immediately entranced –
An old glass bottle poking through
A stark Australian beach;
She brought it home and found inside
A scroll that she could reach.
She dried it in the oven
And the message was revealed,
One hundred thirty-one long years
From when it first was sealed.
It merely told where it was from
And asked for its return,
So scientists could analyze
Its journey and could learn.
A message in a bottle
Has a singular mystique,
Like a hole cut in the fabric
Of the past, where we can peek.
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