Message In A Bottle Poem by Joe Rosochacki

I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world, I’ll send an s.o.s. to the world
I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my,
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle, yeah, Message in a bottle, yeah

It’s not about Sting sending out a S.O.S. distress signal,
Though Mary Ann, Gilligan’s Isle Alumni, could’ve sent one when she was busted,
It’s not a fictional movie romance that starred Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn.
But what it was when,
A school girl’s experiment 21 years ago,
That involved a message in a bottle that made to another persons reach.

“About 21 years passed between the time Emily Hwaung put the message in a soda bottle and Merle Brandell picked it up on the beach.”

Time and distance didn’t affect the message inside,
Merle sent back the data required to the school.
I wonder Voyager will do the same, I wonder what the press would read like,

“About 21 light-years passed between the time NASA put the message on the spacecraft, Voyager, and Aliens picked it up on their planet.”

It makes one wonder a bit.

(3-24-2008)