'If I was a hermit crab, <br />In a shallow rock-pool' <br />'I'd be contented as can be. <br />This; distance from the sea.' <br /> <br />'Everything, else would be. <br />Superfluous to me…? <br />There'd be no reefs—See' <br />Either above or below me… <br /> <br />'I could be that great-White. <br />Abiding without; inherit fear! <br />I'd maroon portions of time, <br />No one else could near.' <br /> <br />'Solitude would be mine. <br />But oh so lovingly my dear... <br />I'd call this heavenly coastline! <br />Ours; and heavenly …I'd steer.' <br /> <br />'Sideways …on pins and claws <br />Love I'd be the happiest crab! <br />Listening to the seagulls guffaws… <br />A clubfoot, amputee! <br />It wouldn't matter to this devotee.'<br /><br />Mark Heathcote<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-hermit-crab/
