Written by inky at the toolshed, for Basically Creative, September 2010
Caught in a Moment
by time in a rock
to this creature of the deep
it must have been a shock
Old sea snail now sleeps on
in a cliff by the sands of the bay
stoic and silent
with nothing else to say
held in a case of stone
(known as lime)
a reminder of the past
(prehistoric time)
No longer playing about
in the waters of the bay
permanently benched
so in the cliff he’ll stay
But the children by the sea,
to the dunes they do flock
to see the sea snail resting
in its home in the rock
