You Decided to Live in a Fish Tank

To the fish tank to live
until a future day
you may emerge
possibly sterile.

For the day
was for you
... like yesterday
when peril
day in, day out
same as last year
the days...
... no one could reach you,
for your haste in climbing in.

A fish tank
of seawater
to be amongst
they who swim
eat, dodge,
and dart.

After they've gotten
used to you
and you to them
watching one another
... well, it's a start.

Patrick Darnell (1993)