The Ocean

By Hortense Francis

I look at the blue ocean with its carbon dioxide

It thrusts with releasing greenhouse gases burning fossils

So dense as it gets colder

Cargo ships want to float and not get older.

I remembered crossing the Atlantic Ocean

And thought of the salinity and winds so strong

The rain started splashing on the plane glass

I got confused and thought it was vapour coming in fast.

There is only one big ocean on the earth

Many basins, Indian, Southern, Arctic and the rest is dirt

Carbon is broken down to form shells and skeletal parts

While tectonic activity below the land it wants to carve.

Global changes, El Nino and La Nina impacts the weather

The warm sea air becomes like feather

Million of life species are in its cradle

As I write with the pen this ocean fable.

By Hortense Francis