When sea sings to me
I sing back
For I cannot resist its primal call

It surrounds me
Fuses into me
Becomes me

It is tranquil as I float
A soft blanket of comfort
Grazing my skin ever so gently

It is home
It is euphoria
As I bathe lazily under the sun

Yet I am complacent
I forget and forsake
All threats lurking beneath those obsidian waves

It is no real surprise
Come the shifting of the tides
When air becomes a relic of the past

Those waves slash into me as I descend
The water jugs me tightly
And so becomes a second skin

I am left alone
To spin and spin and spine once more
Until up and down are impossible to decipher
Till salt prefers to all my senses

Light tries to slice through her to no avail
So it simply gives me a look of pity
And wishes me one last farewell

I am a part of her cage now
Spun from tendrils of shadow and bone
Born of beauty and chaos

Her power is measureless
I know there is no escaping it

But it's so cold down here
I just want to go home
I try to move
To think
To find hope

I am too cold
Too weak
And she is too strong
We both know there is no letting me go

So she cackles as she hears my final thought
"I didn't expect the place I love to take me to my grave"

Then I drift
To become one of her sweet lullabies