The darkest place on earth
I'm in v shaped depressions
and the deepest trenches
like the Marina Trench

I'm so cold and heavy
almost nothing escapes me
I contain horror creatures
and strange scary features

I'm named for Hades
the truest underworld
a deeper realm of death
you never fully explored

I'm so deep I hit the floor
here's where continents rise
I'm practically the bottom
but I mean the opposite

Sea stars and squids
pretty little invertebrates
are the only things here
'cause no light shines at all

I'm freezing without being frozen
and tough enough to crush
They thought I was the end
till they found my friends

Explored in your machines
I settle at 3,281 feet beneath
I lay just on top of the abyss
it's dark in every way here

I'm dangerous for you
May than fourteen times
the pressure you can stand
I crush people in my waters

All of my creatures are tough
tough enough to survive me
giant squids and hulking wales
I'm the biggest layer you see

656 feet and 3,281 feet
I can faintly see the sun
I couldn't imagine
what you would think

I love my dear friends
they're strange and lovely
from joseph the swordfish
and mrs. and ms. wolf eel

I think you'd be interested
in my crazy silly things
I'm the "twilight zone"
I hear that mocking theme

Dearest sunlight shining
you peek through the waves
shining and shimmering
on my leisurely surface

I'm only the first 656 feet
the little beach you dip
your toes in to relax
where you fish and play

With coral reefs of color
and sparkling scaled fish
I caress boats across me
and flow ever so gently