Beaneath the ocean’s fading green
lie reef and silver dunes,
where shellfish pillage pirate’s graves
and scuttle through the gloom
Below, the sunlight’s fiery wings
are distant waves of smoke
In lightless pools, unseeing eyes
of monsters haunt the murk
Beyond the warm, saltwater waves,
dust glitters, cold and hushed,
And through the bones of fallen stars
Swim tiny sparkling fish.
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