While the fish swam
And the moon she cried
As the sharks feasted
While the plankton drifted delicately with soft smooth slowness
A hypnotic colony of drifters on debris who sighed and mesmerised them all
While the sun smiled brightly down upon them
And as the gang rapist dolphins were executed by the piranha
The warmth engulfed them all as some of the darkness melted into light
And most of the planets sang in chorus sharing slowly small things
But as the tide flowed in and out and the birds sang in the trees along the shore
The waves didn’t care
- from the collection, Some poems about life and stuff by stuart barnes
