Come with me,
Come deep into the oceans of my heart,
Below the wars that wage relentless,
That cruel and pointless slaughter.

Come, hold my hand and descend,
And witness the creatures that I keep here:
The soft shelled molluscs and the coelecanths.
In the depths, life exists.

The heart lies deep in a fathomless ocean:
Now murderous, hateful, seething with the blood of its enemies,
Now calm, at peace, inviting.

Below, far below these liquid vascillations,
Unremembered, lies my heart -
Calcified, emprisoning a treasure of pearls.