Message From a Bottle🍾

The journey lasted months by ship,  
Each night the sea would surge      
As passengers would lurch & tip,    
Their gills, turned green, regurged.    
     
My mates & I in stoic stance    
Along the upper deck,    
As two abreast we’d look askance,    
Each customer a wreck.    
     
Yet on this one particular,    
Bartender reamed a glass.    
No passenger was at the bar    
And no one on deck passed.    
     
I felt my liquor’s amber flush    
As ocean made it known,    
Was time to jump ship in the rush    
Into the great unknown.    
     
I heard the crash some of my mates    
Thrown up against the hull.    
Their bottled contents’ raining fate    
Among the cry of gulls.    
     
I was among the very few    
Embraced between the waves,    
The many colored rainbow hues    
A lifeboat came to save.  
 
I’m still the best in bourbon scotch,  
In Adelaide a year.  
For service you can set your watch,  
It’s hot as Hades here.