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.