Living Within the Oceans Deep

Living within the oceans deep

Let me tell you what secrets they keep

Many hundreds of years ago

Our people didn’t know

Living beneath the ocean waves

To the land we are no longer slaves

Rarely alone, our kin close by

The ocean waves have become our sky

Often we gather, disparate paths converging

With new connections, often emerging

Sometimes we move, with only a few

Trying to find something new

Wherever our lives lead, with our homes we will be

For our homes are with us, under the sea.

This sonnet is based on an idea that I had for underwater habitation. Rather than imagining as if it could be, here I’m imagining it as if it already is. Maybe in the future people will really be writing about their lives under the ocean.