Deep Down Below

• Mia Apomayta, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2019

Deep down in the ocean
Where the world is bathed in midnight blue,
The world is muffled and void of all motion,
Apart from the soft movements of animals around you.

The innocent stingray is gliding so near,
Its silhouette a subtle contrast to the blue hue of the ocean
Its body spins in a soft lazy barrel with no fears.
Cutting through and separating the gentle waves.

A bewitching seal saunters by
Silky silver skin a gem in a sea of stars.
Its fins waving jubilantly at anything that passes its eye,
The seal has come a long way but still must travel far.

Next comes by is a blue whale ever so striking,
It lets out a deep rumbling moan everyone can hear.
A creature so grand no creature can be compared against it,
Wanderer of the ocean year after year.