Can you tell what subject I study? This is an odd one, but neatly contained within it is the exact reason I'm doing zoology... A weird blend of my two interests.

All Things Strive

Five kilometres below sea level, where the sun’s light has never been known,

On a freezing and bleak abyssal plane, always crushed under the pressure of tonnes,

There lived a crab.

Tiny, bleached, apparently fragile, it scuttles between the rotting carcasses

And the effluvia of billions of other animals that thrive in the sun,

There lives the crab.

Past the great mouldering corpse of a leviathan, now ravaged and diminished

By unknown and unseen denizens, the necrophagic scavengers of the deep,

Scuttles the crab.

Picking across the detritus of a life unknown in this cold and sightless hell,

Towards a wound in the world that exudes toxic chemicals in scalding billows,

Wanders the crab.

Clustered around the noxious fumes that spill into the otherwise empty landscape,

On a razor’s edge of survival at the very edge of viability,

Live the crabs.

Dancing between long elegant ribbons of scarlet,

A flora unknown and forever unseen,

Yet glorious.