All God’s Children

On wet, wavy worlds
of vast oceans
where air is deadly
and all living things
breathe water

do the sentient envision
angels with gills
and without wings
swimming through
the heavens?

And here on Earth,
might similar images
comfort the
finned intellects
swimming through
our oceans?

Who am I to know?

Yet surely, when in death,
such beings join
heaven’s angels,
they, too, enter through
universal pearly gates.

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Image Credit: An abstract “mermaid” is used to represent alien sentient sea life [Pink Wall // wallpaper.dog]