Alex.J.Cobalt

You know the colour three feet below the surface of the water?

That’s it. That colour. The deep blue that mingles with green as the light slices through it. It surrounds you as you tread water, trying to hold your breath as you take in the space around you.

Fish flitter by, darting through the sea like birds flying through the air. They are at home here, you are not.

Then below you, the deep backness of nothing as you float, looking down, not being able to see the bottom.

It makes you realise how vast the planet is, for there are depths down there that no human has touched.

You force yourself to the surface again as your lungs burn with their need for air, leaving the mysteries of the deep behind you.

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