The Fish Are Singing

The fish are singing
The sea is gold
Like an autumn awaiting a frozen new world
and birds fall, like crashing aircraft
in the flame of night

And in the ocean of salt and mercury and human fragments
we must live, and struggle
to evade the choke of shrapnel
and hook
and jaws

The fish are singing
of hope
of loss
of hope
of loss

© Mark Sheeky. Permission is required for reproduction.