Underwater
UNDERWATER
Down, down -
To the wrecked vision,
Of freedom, of endless floating
Roads, over the open ocean;
To the once buoyant dreams
That no more bubble
To the clear sunny surface,
Light with hope.
Now sunless gloom -
Room with flooded, muffled noises,
Refracted, reflected, enclosed
In the pulsating body
Of brine, endless, alive :
Mother of life, giver of death.
The captain’s stateroom,
The cabinboy’s ropelocker -
Are filled with the life and death
Of the deep ocean.
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2014
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