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There was a rumbling down below,
way, way down,
in the oceanic trenches,

you told me they were very dark,
and that some day when I understood the meaning of an abyss,
I could swim down there,

you said it was the most remarkable ting you had ever seen,
but if not for the darkness,
you could have, would have let it consume you,

but you shut your eyes when you were down there,
shut them good and tight,
until you believed in tranquility,
even though tranquility knew it was an antidote to something,
not everything,

but some

things,

sometimes