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The Sea Wolf

Oleander Bellanger

Wonderful warm coat

Beneath layers of blubber

Lays your treasure.

 

A warmth dancing within a dark room

Surrounded by a glass cage

Your precious light

Only used for the needs of another.

 

Whimpering for the brothers and sisters

Howling for a mother and father

Off the coasts of Jamaica.

 

No one called back

On those lonesome white beaches.

Those once curious and joyous eyes

Now filled with despair and hunger.

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