Oh, Hello

Staring at her reflection in water
Thinking with lonely and saddened mind
"I wish I had someone else to talk to"
She turns around, glazed eyes,
And spies through swaying greenery
Something to distract her solitary mood

"Oh, Hello." She mouths
Bobbing nervously in front of the creature
Two large glassy eyes peering back
Blinking in succession with her own,
Mouth hanging open with curiosity
And head tilted in imitation

Silence. The submarine characteristics,
Golden scales glittering from overhead glow
Shining down on the breathless thing
Mute fins flapping as it approaches,
Her own advancement to strange creature
Drawing the living thing nearer

Familiarity with the companion
But uncertainty of what it is
And where she has met it before,
A sense of safety and no fear,
Friend, not predator,
She whirls closer to the soul

Mouthing words to the silent friend
Who copies the motions exactly,
As if it already knows her actions
Before even she does.
Swirling around decorative marine castle,
The bowl trapping both of them.

In her shiny domed habitat
Completely surrounded and encaged,
She realises who the creature is.
Her reflected image against polished glass
Copying her own aquatic movements,
Oh, the curse of thirty second memory.