I have learned a lot in my life

Like how you have to put up with

All the animals swimming in me

And I have to cause hurricanes

And tsunamis when I really don’t want to

That causes people to hate me

They despise of me, leak oil into me

And hurt what I love, they fin sharks

They overfish and they killed some

Just for fun and I met many who I hated

Storms would brew and I killed people

I watched them drown because they

Hurt me, though I didn’t want to

I even met a few who fell in love with me

One girl who came every day

Every day for eighteen years

Didn’t miss a day and she loved me

She splashed into the depths and I saved her

No. She saved me, or until I hurt her

One day she fell in love with a man

And that was when she still visited

But the man killed the things I loved

He was a fisherman and he did it

Not for his living but for fun

So I swallowed him hole

He drowned that day and

The girl turned away and I was sad

She cursed me, the girl who loved me

Told me, “deep down, you’re really shallow”

Then she fled, and never returned

And I quaked. All sealife felt my sorrow

No matter how hard I tried

I still was The Ocean

I didn’t want to be The Ocean

But I was and I swore I’d never love again