"In Glass"

[butterflydreaming]

Some days I feel armored in petals
But today, I feel encased in glass
a message in a bottle, adrift

Too much time to be restless
the long hours are an unyielding sea
Slowly, without mercy,
etching a haze on my confinement

no barriers can last forever

If my words rest awhile
on some harboring beach
Where no eyes understand my cipher

I remain unread, and with the escaping tide

I am pulled out again
Parting forever from my vanishing impression
on this measure of sand

I am spinning in this vast brine
Rolled by swells
Always moving where the currents take me

what I have to say seems irrelevent
To so much indifferent water
meaningless, in this cold element.