We leave the land
upright and proud
chilling skin
with salty kisses
immersed in joy
we lose our cares
give up our names
in bubbles that rise
to a vanishing sky
we play like seals
survival and frolic
and our skin shifts
to glittering scales
silken through water
rolling forward
a dancing underwater flight
dreaming submerged
living by depth ~ Caroline A. Slee