Write a poem in which the narrator desires to be someone or something else. Inspiration from Natasha Rao’s ‘In my next life let me be a tomato’.
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Dreams of Sardines
flitting in salty fluid, hundreds and thousands
of breathren holding strong, dazzling and
eluding fanged predators, swirling and swarming
writhing in a blue-green brine, darting
twirling, whirling, curling, unfurling
together they sustain trophic levels
and life, nourishing the largest among us.
life of purpose, eating, fleeing, evading
and finally, resting in the belly of a giant
so that life continues on tomorrow and onward
in this prismatic broth of flesh and bone
and so they persist, energised and rapid
I have a dream for thousands of kin cooperating
fighting for mutual protection and universal aid,
a life spent dancing in beams of golden sunlight
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