Message In a Bottle

I am hollow, I exist, The train that no one missed - Or wanted to catch anyway. I am here, I am alive, Seeking any joy I can derive From another unpromising day. I stay and I remain, Life in the slow lane As time drives away, A hit and run, don’t look back, Keep your eyes to the tarmac And hope and wish and pray For better, always better, A bottle holds a letter, A message gone astray; No one listens because no one hears, The world folds in and disappears, As you return to earth, to clay.