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Rising waves snap the masts

holes in hull through tentacles grasp

water in lungs, met at the eye

heeding the screeches of crustaceans cry

Sirens sang us to our death

revealing a world that we never left

hidden beneath reflecting light

starting anew in this watery life

Eyes of vermilion rise from the deep

gargantuan molluscs swallowed the sea

the prehistoric have eaten us whole

leaving our colonies for tales to behold

Asphyxiating, we surface our gills

shredding through the skin

drowning out the memories

of what could, and would, have been

The flooding of forests, the cries of the trees

the end of our people, to sea-beasts we plea

forgetting our lifeforms, embracing the sea

rebuilding our cities within the deep

The end of our people, the sea-beasts are we