My free time

I wrote a caption for a contest on a cartoon, which I will post. Because it will be graded by English teachers, and because I have time on my hands, I wrote it in verse. Behold (it's actually really long for a caption):

"Haunted am I, by visions dark: the victims of my trade
In sleep nor wakeness, night nor day, do they from mine eyes fade.
The scaly phantoms, silent, solemn, ever school about:
Sea Bass, tuna, cod and catfish, unforgiving trout.
Scales: they lie upon my hands: a weight too great to bear;
My guilt--my pain!--is multiplied in each black, lifeless stare.
I entreat thee, gentle sir, to drive these spectres from my sight.
That I might not in darkness drown, but once more live in light."