The Jellyfish Chronicles

Beneath my tendrils, Hidden by waves of despair Lie Souls lost in storms nightmare No cross, or family visitors, Except crabs and eels And curious seals Picking away at the last semblance That made them once human The seas sermon, their last chaplain A sunken boat, company for the last captain The sea has many secrets And I know her spirit well For I am the last witness To ships that sink To gulls that die To hear the whales that cry To see the births, Far away from man’s eye I cast my shawl Up mountains hidden By current and canyon I watch with my many eyes The dolphins panic caught in trawlers net Whose whistle, the final lament Asphyxiation the cruel torment The finless shark, the once proud ruler of this realm Writhes in clouds of blood, while enemies swoop Victim to another’s, gourmet soup All is secret, for the sea hides many things Her coral cities and sea horse prairies But locked away in Davies locker Oil and gas, The treasure and the waste She is the mother of all, And the reaper of her domain And I am left to wonder For her embrace is mine to share For I am the jelly fish, and I am a witness To all who have wronged This place where I belong And now I see the virgin iceberg A last paradise where man is not welcome Leave my mother be, and leave her children’s kingdom Let the cold be her knight, Let the bears rule the night And let nature be the light. For I am just a jellyfish Wandering my home, the sea, You go to yours and let mine be. For the sea will always be a part Of you, and me. And that is how, to respect my home, the sea Footnote: Thejellyfish has over twenty eyes, more than any other creature on the planet