In The Depths, Unseen

Deep in the ocean there lives a fish

It has silver scales and I call it ‘my wish’

In darkness it flits like a flash of light

Keeping my murky ocean bright

No one has seen it and no one knows

For in such deep waters no oarsman rows

                       

Among the colored corals it lives and plays

Joyfully living its numbered days

I know in my hands I never shall hold

Or its glorious beauty my eyes behold

And like all things born are sure to die

One day ‘my wish’ too, shall lifeless lie

But still, as long as I know it somewhere lives

An undying hope to me it gives.