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Caroline Fitzgerald

Beneath the Sea

Veda, a child radiating with joy, who is so very pretty and eager to learn,
Waits on the dock watching the waves turn white at their tip,
As she wonders what love is and in concern,
She turned to her sister Lila who so very disappointingly bit her lip.

She declared love was a hoax and to forget what she’d heard,
That love could only exist in heaven,
To believe in anything otherwise was entirely absurd
But Veda was only seven.

She knew she was too young to talk to God,
When suddenly the tide swept her beneath the sea,
And a marvelous creature though only a cod,
Said heaven was not a place, not a place we can be.

But that beneath this ageless ocean was the embraced knowledge on which we thrive,
That heaven are those very moments spent when we actually feel alive.

[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2012 EDITION]