Seal
There are those who believe seals
to be the reincarnation of souls lost at sea.
Now, I see one swimming;
a black shadow in the grey undulating sea,
drifting like a languid, leaden cloud,
on a dull, dark, expectant sky.
I watch it roll and twist;
a supine being of fathomless depths,
a transient, unbound thing,
neither lost nor found.
Sleek spectre, free spirit.
Grey waters, white-flecked waves.