You embraced me with the warmest of reverberations,

as I awoke to dawn’s light.

Submerged within the coldest of seas,

I found that I could still breathe,

so I swam far beneath the shallow reef

Wading into the ocean deep,

Encountering many things.

The richness of marine life

and abundance of underwater flora,

the result of aeons of cultivation.

I looked out into the expanse of the dark waters

and felt the vastness of this archive as my hands brushed solid ground

Saw how the past was left untouched

yet the flowers bloomed so wildly,

an undersea garden so unkempt.

These ocean flowers grew

As we patrolled these wild lands

with the tenderest of care,

with love and affection.

From a lonely you

we became two.

Growing into creatures of myths and legends,

leaving the human world in the wake of our existence.