Message In A Bottle Poem by Alexander Thomas

How do you frame all those moments that drifted past?
Like lost candle wishes floating down the Ganges,
On the all-consuming, meandering river of life,
Tinted by those fragile lights of wistful emotion,

Has it taken years to really find the words?
Did those bobbing candles prevail against the fading light?
We reached further for each other than the pull of the tides,
Did the message find its way across love's vast ocean?

When the waters recede where do you find yourself?
On what distant shore will you call home?
Will we let it all be washed away with the flow of time?
Or will you ever pick up that wish?