I wrote you a message
I poured out my heart
Told you of my broken life
And sealed it in a bottle
 
Watching from the cliffs
As the currents of the ocean
Drag it away
Who knows when you’ll find it
 
But on the shores of an unknown land
The rocks loom
And the waves crash
And the green tinted glass can’t take it
 
No one notices a shattered bottle on the rocks below
 
My fervent message
Slowly melts into the water
And glass shards
Litter the shore
 
Some things you can fix
Sew a torn quilt
Heal a splintered bone
But I am like broken glass
Irreparable
 
Later
If you see the glistening shards
Will you wonder
Whose shattered life
That was?