25 September 2022

dark places


home is dark 
tons of blue green waters
pressing the disk into sands
that never see the light of day 
but this is darkness 
subterranean 
no home for a sand dollar 
silence unbroken 
far from joyful dolphins 
or somber whales 
still creatures live here 
friendly with the night 
alien to a pilgrim 
only passing through 
a cave that goes on and on
larger than any on earth 
full of rooms forgotten and found 
once the abode of many waters 
running to the sea
now only condensation remains 
in mammoth caverns 
under tons of loamy dirt
no home for light 

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