Aquarium

 Aquarium
Early last year, I visited the local aquarium for the first time: it captivated me immediately, making me fall in love with it, in its beauty, and in its boundless soul. Every time I enter, I’m immersed in a wondrous darkness, where tiny, delicate fish scales glimmer against the starry sky, where sharks swim above me in a tube, with their faces streaked with iridescent colors in the rays of the setting sun, where air gathers like mercury under the sky, where jellyfish fly, reflected in a myriad of mirrors and eyes.

This amazing image freezes and begins to float in my memory, like the surface of the sea at low tide. And I know it wasn’t a dream or a fantasy, because they are never as bright and contrasting as the lights of the aquariums at the edge of the earth and sky.