Netherworlds In Balance Poem by Greg Gaul

Take a daring deep dive five miles below
to the world's hidden dark bottom of the sea
where many Ethereal Snailfish lead lives
as the deepest living fish known to science.
A cosmos here on earth, you could not know
and one where few have ever seen or can go.
A place of no sun where life flourishes, thrives
surviving the black unknown forever night.

Time takes on new dimensions in this sphere,
coral species that live four thousand years!
Organics sink into the vast "Mud Plains",
are half as big as all lands above.
Apart from our terra firma, life lives
in two realms: one upper and one lower.

No wonder we see life in binary terms:
me and you, us and them, heaven and hell,
top and bottom, light and dark, white and black,
day and night, good and evil, up and down.
We shape the land and the land shapes us,
the seas have had a hand in shaping land.

Science findings in this deep sea netherworld
could make major differences in earth's lands.
From far away, shadows reveal the light
that will shape discovery beyond the sky.
If life exists down below with no sun,
it might survive in far off deep sea floors.
In humankind's epic search for life in space,
who would think that balance may lie beneath?

In the ecosystems of our ego minds,
be patient gardeners, one can find balance.
In the darkest depths of the Mariana Trench,
luminescent species flicker their light
while atop Everest, a too proud climber
raises a flag and celebrates his might.
We search the universe to find nature;
reach beyond self, be part of it - all worlds.