MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Mailed to Patrizia Tictac in Germany for her project "Message in a bottle", accompanied by this text:

Amelia was so in love
with the sea she became
a boat in a bottle
singing fados
for the braking waves.

Throw me overboard
before I suffocate
the seagulls heard her plea

Throw me near the cliffs
so I can get stranded
to grow my roots to reach
the sky & clouds will catch
my longings & rain me back
to the memories of whom I was.

What's after all a message in a bottle?
Nothing but the stowaway of our emotions,
time capsules of our mood swings,
could be the compression of a depression
or a long lecture tape looking for identical heartbeats,
like prehistoric chips dialing to the sun,
rhythmic sounds spelling S E H N S U C H T blues
for the melting of Iceberg legs
& the clipping of our wings.

Guido Vermeulen