”I have known enchantment for the sea
for coasts of citrine, emerald, lazuli,
in the bounty fishers reap,
and in terror of the deep.
For every ship may but the surface glide,
the sailor’s muse seen mirrored in her tide,
yet life beneath writhes frenzied, brisk, and bleak
or else devoured slow, with hooks and beak.
Of these twain aspects I, both, admire;
Two sides of the sea’s dichotomous empire,
to them equally my heart bequeath:
the jeweled surface, and the dread beneath.”
*splashes*
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