A war on our Oceans      

At night the ships ready,

trawl nets like sharp teeth

destroying the seemingly endless expanses

Metal weights like plows dragging sediment along the ocean floor

Plants suffocated, fish populations steadily, slowly,

Dying

Nets violently ripping, toiling

A war on our ocean.

Ships like siege machines

Perpetually barreling

Towards the light of a new day, a new battle

The seafloor desecrated 

An underwater holocaust before our our eyes

But the issue lost in the ever rising stack of problem sheets,

Put aside, ignored even

Human interjection killing our oceans

But in the cities and towns,

The rolling plains of Europe

A misty morning

Fog covered

The world unaware of the conflict raging under the surface