The World of Silence

...Through the swaying coral groves Brushing past the stones And drifting 'neath the greenest shade of canopies Casting shadows as we roam Down among the manta rays Twirling 'mongst the bones. The jellies and anemonies— Among the shells And the sunken sands below— Dance with us on early graves Call us from the whale. A pair of ladies hovering and sliding up From the foot of beds unknown...