Day 18

Bottle.

Is this the real thing?

I'd like to do so many things
Care for the one's I love,

Stand in my garden in the breeze
As rain falls from above,

Perchance I'd recall how to sing
No care for harmony,

I far flung wish from where I am
Void of all company,

Is this the real thing?
Have we no other thing
Of which that we could sing?
In hope that we may bring
Some hope to give our kin
Here were it's never spring
Where the sun can't shine in
No gallant prince or king
No cavalry rush in
No hope on which to cling
The phone it ceased to ring
Just desperate scrawled writing
Note in a bottle fling
Slim chance that it will bring
A change to anything...

Is this what the world wants today
Is this the real thing,
If this is all it really is
Is it still worth the fighting.

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With the Bottle theme, I couldn't resist a couple of stanzas of the Coca-Cola ballad.

@quillfire taught me to structure a ballad using the Coca-Cola jingle from the 70s.

It works.

A little too well. They are great marketers. Proceed with caution, you will be stuck with it.