Awaiting The Rainbow

When the water falls

Outlook is laden with clouds

Longing brighter days

Message in a Bottle

A moment in time, captured sublime

a requisition of altered position

This bottled note, drifting afloat

Searching a savior of altered behavior

Hope's sendoff,  for life's takeoff

but the bottle delivers nothing but rivers

of liquid courage and misplaced tonnage

This beached delight,  grounded in flight

of salty streams of aspiring dreams

Was nothing more than a washed ashore

Bottled quagmire, of hopeful desire

For the message to reach the right shore