Life is a message in a bottle

Cast into the sea

Green glass shimmering brightly in the sun-

Before plunging to the dark despairing depths,

Lost and frightened,

Stranded in the midst of tumultuous swells;

Where only the wind shrieks-

But then there is calm.

A glimpse of battered, green glass

Washed up on a distant shore, by foreign waves,

Catching the eye of a passerby,

Whose curiosity gets the better of him.