**perceived Differently** Poem by Allen Steble The Philosophical Poet

I live deep, deep in the ocean
down in the Mariana trench
where darkness looms at day
and blackness rules at night
living off the green growth
crushed under two thousand elephants
of squeezing pressure
hoping my brittle home
isn't consumed by a growing fissure
thats life twelve kilometers below
in the deep deep ocean below

I live high, high in the sky
up in the clouds of Everest
where I can sit with the stars
the stars that never rest
living off the white whispy snow
floating yet with no wings
soaring above with the cool moving wind
living on a passing soft cloud
looking down on the forrest crowds
thats life eight kilometers above
in the high, high day and night sky

I am not at the lowest level
nor am I at the highest point
just somewhere in-between
seen from the surface
we can all view life differently
if we look through another one's eyes
from high and low we see
we perceive life differently