you
my child

you've embraced
this curse
that we've brought upon ourselves as a species.

you've become sick with greed.
your scales have turned Green
like the ocean of sin
you swim yourself through.

you swim with a different school now, "power in numbers" they say
but you had the power in you all along.

you just chose to deny yourself the pleasure of filling the same shoes (fins) as the rest of us.

you miss the days when the waters weren't sick
and the sun shown brighter
but you destroyed the world one step at a time
by conforming into what you're not.

It goes against nature
without saying
that
you
shed your
skin to be something as minuscule as
a minnow  

you sparkle
like the sun
kisses
the top of
the
ocean

and you give me sea salt kisses
when you say my name

but darling
as much as you may have yourself fooled

in the great blue,
in a sharks belly
in this shipwrecked heart


you
my child.

my little fishy friend.

you're still just like all the rest of them.