Siren’s Sonnet - Coral Reef

Across the middle of the Earth, where the water is warm

and clear, and bright, and teeming with life.

The morning seagull squacks,

school is in session.

Listen to wise, old professor Anthozoa

for he protects and guides those who travel from afar.

But, he grows overheated and tired

carrying the weight of the world on his colorful skeleton.

He is dying, not slowly like his life drifted past,

oblivious stage four destruction.

When the boiling water heats ever so slowly,

when the last bubble of air exits a body,

when the boat slips under stormy waves,

Then, who will teach the class?