Back before I was with my ex-boyfriend, I met a guy through Infoseek Chat. He and I fell in love and went out. You could call it love at first chat! *lol*

However, a few months into our relationship, I didn't hear from him for four weeks. I couldn't go on and assume that he was still out there... so, I assumed we had broken up. I still haven't seen him, to this day. During the few months of our relationship, I was sitting in one of my classes, longing to be with him, and this is what came from that. If you ever get to read this, Tom, I still love you, even though I go under a different name now.

You know how, when you're in a chat room, couples are always sending each other messages that have a little *swak*, or sealed with a kiss, tag? That is the very phrase that inspired this poem. (BTW, don't ask me where I got the tied up with a rose part; it just seemed to fit, so...)

This poem is dedicated to my best friend, who, even with all her faults, is beautiful to me. She is, to me, my light in the dark, my strength when I am weak, and my comfort when I am hurting. When my boyfriend and I broke up, she was the only thing that brought me through (even though she kept saying those four words no one wants to hear after a relationship gone bad, "I told you so!"). This poem might be a little difficult to understand because of its format, but if you understand that all the subsequent phrases connect to the first phrase, it's easy to understand.

This is just a poem I wrote during a dull moment. It's a short little ditty that, even through its humor, conveys my feelings about the coming weekend. Obviously, it was written close to the day it was named for.

There was a day that I was sitting in class, bored to death, and an image of a girl on a desert isle (Gilligan style!) would not leave me. Then came to mind the movie "Message in a Bottle". This poem is not related to that movie. I have never even seen the movie! But I found a way to integrate the phrase and the image, and this is the result.