I lived in depths of a hundred fathoms <br />Where days are dark and cold <br />Darting shrimps leave silver streaks <br />The only light to be seen at noon <br /> <br />You can’t tell when it’s ebb or tide <br />In my abyss no precision gauge <br />Measure what is great and small <br />Leviathans and weak fish equal in esteem <br /> <br />Friendly barnacles smile but who’s to see <br />Sea grass greet should anyone come <br />Fiddler crabs play mute chamber music to <br />An audience of groupers with mouths agape <br /> <br />Endless miles of filigreed corals <br />Graceful kelp lined row on row <br />A regal maze of lime green hedges <br />Lie hidden in deep blue trenches <br /> <br />Loveliest place in all of the seven seas <br />Only if a million bonfires could be lit <br />An Eden kept secret, you know it’s there <br />Illumined by floodlights of my mind<br /><br />Eddie Roa<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dark-eden/
