Snow alights as dark sea grows
Then far below lies softly glowing
Snow turns slowly into water

I know deep down hidden in you
submarine bells chime
Gold and groaning, sunlit toning,
submerged sound sublime

So the colder, deeper tolling
Reaches dissolution
You wish a vicious whirlpool
go swirling round and round

I can watch in wonder
as your gaze shifts past my shoulder
Just a glimpsed abyss that flashes at me

I know deep down hidden in you
submarine bells chime
Gold and groaning, sunlit toning,
submerged sound sublime

Since the weakest currents bruise it
Someday I may lose this
Immersed in words and miss you
Kiss foaming waves goodbye

I slice the surface here beside you
Lungs filled liquid yell I love you
Sound moves further underwater

Deep and dark my submarine bells
groan in greens and grey
Mine would chime a thousand times
To make you feel okay, k, k,
Okay

IN MEMORIUM: MARTIN PHILLIPS
07.02.63 - 07.28.24

07.28.26