We are enamoured by
Ever changing aspects and moods
Of mysterious face of the sea
While vast deep is changeless

Storm, wind and tide hurry
With advancing seasons
Turbulence magically awakens
New life on shores, wet and highlands

Nothing is wasted
Rich minerals freighted upon rivers
Every particle useful, deeply stirred
Ready for new forms of life

The stark problem of survival 
A problem of keeping alive
The spark of life, a matter of existing 
No demands made, a dormant state

Take these blue fathoms and pair with blue space above
A steady cure-all, surely, for human race
Yet, do not deny need for one blue pill daily.

Poem derived from the text of ‘The Sea Around Us‘ by Rachel Carson, Oxford, 2021, pp. 32-33: Chapter title ‘The Changing Year.’