Your heart is a vast ocean
of enormous and unknown depth
and I have heard the calm
comforting whispers of the waves
and the siren songs
of the mermaids hidden
below the surface
and there is a sky as long
and infinite as the night
bordering its every soft edge

I cannot remember falling
or diving in
but I find myself sinking
and drowning in its delicate warmth
and it isn’t that I have forgotten
how to swim
or that I am too tired
to stay afloat
but it is here in these waters
that drowning makes me feel
more alive than I ever
would have imagined possible before

it is a comfortable fear
a quite trembling of of nerves
a temptation to abandon
the peace of solitude
and the longing desperation

here is where I can die
exhaling my last breath
knowing that all I lived through
and for
was worth it in the end
that the brief moment
my life stretched itself
over the long horizon of eternity
I had truly found something
that made everything in life
more beautiful than love