Essence of Me
Soul City Message in a Bottle Challenge

The winds shift and change
The sea roars bringing forth tidal waves
From the vast distance beaming light
Shinning bright like the sun in the skies
The bottle
Being pushed and pulled
Shifted around within the currents
Only to be dragged to shore
Barely unnoticed
Sitting and waiting
For someone to open her up
Read her message and finally
Let the essence of me unfold

Many minutes passed
Many sorrows I cried
Moments wondering
What will they say?
What will my words leak?
What pains will they hear me speak?
Now that I am finally opened
And my message is now revealed
This is what I say when she finally reads me:

A soul held prisoner in my own cell
Insecurities that I now must confess
Living in darkness
Hoping to see the light
Troubled by the thoughts buried in my past
Wanting a ray to shine over me
Written in these verses
And expressed within my stained mind
Wishing for the blood that runs through my veins
To grace itself in passion
Be consumed by unconditional love
Covenant within flesh and in flesh
Relinquishing the mind
And professing lust within despair
Only to find my life inked
Within the writes of my eternal flames
Words that enslave me
Casting me to the solitude
My minds portrays
Straying away from temptation
Dealt by the devil’s ruthful hand
Encasing my heart
So it bleeds just a little less
For the pain has held my hand
And the tears comforted this soul
Hoping to wash away
The hurt life has given
With the salt and the rain
Produced by the ocean
That silenced
The cry of help
This soul has withered
Leaving it only to slumber
In its restless sleep

She held the page and kissed it once
Held it to comfort the tears of pain within its sight
Placed it in the bottle, never to be seen again
Letting it float away in hopes of reaching another heart.

Planted Daisies2009