Ocean Child | A Poem Reading

^ A reading of the poem 'Ocean Child' by poet Sophia Conway

Ocean Child

Lay your palm upon the ocean and

Feel

The heartbeat of a spinning sphere

hands that ripple, holding yours

as the sun

Runs

Across the sky and weeps

For kinder days gone by - golden

The teardrops in the sea

And LIFE

the creature's chorus cries to me.

They swim in sunlit coral reefs

And blow their pearl bubbles

Up to me, gasping

LIFE

for me too, please.

My children are not food, PLEASE.

On my dinner plate, I hear

The ocean faraway

Sing in sorrow for its child

Gone

Gone like the days behind

And still,

The galaxies they spin

And still,

The bells of life they ring.