When You'Re Down In Deep Blue
There was once a windowpane oyster
in the deep of an ocean's depth
wherein dwelt a treasured secret kept
An opaline sphere of salmon colored pink
born of a single grain of sand
a charm unseen within the oysters hand
Fish when you are at bottom's blue sea
and seek this lonely little shell
those times when heaven feels like hell
And when something gets 'neath the skin
and festers and sorely shows
remember the pearl an oyster grows
For from one tiny irritating grain of sand
(like that pebble in your shoe)
beauty can be fished from your troubles too
(April 8 2016)
* Windowpane, an oyster that is especially common in the Philippines and has a large flat somewhat pearly paper-thin shell prized for it's pearls and used for thousands of years especially by the Chinese as a substitute for glass windowpanes and in later times for lampshades and chandeliers.
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