A Human poet called Aaron Chaya came to Deep Space Nine and recited one of his poems on the Promenade.
I could only stay for part of it; I got called to help Ensign Thorek rewire the new ventral cell in Docking Bay 1. But I caught part of the poem, the phrase “deeply creatures”, and looked it up later.
“I always loved the window edge’s curve,
blocking the vastness of space from my view.
But space there is beyond it, and superhuman silences,
so very deep here in my brain I pretend
to be a star, bright and burning, and I set up my light
against the void, comparing them, and
I drown in the enormity of it, so very deep here in
my heart I pretend to be a planet,
a water planet with eels and deeply creatures,
and an atmosphere pungent
with the sea creatures’ breath, but my thought
dissipates in the atmosphere,
and sweet it is to shipwreck on this sea.”