Reef

A boat nears the reef,

Two boys in a pool,

A drunkard’s errand,

A friend and a fool.

A boy push’d under,

He gasps to scream,

Wave split by thunder,

In waters stream.

Blackened eyes and blue below,

Sunken cheeks of indigo,

A limp wreck held by arms of coral,

A painful voyage of a deadly moral.