Head under water while trying to breathe.

A lungful of water cannot save

Someone who desperately needs air,

Struggling for surface when there's none to be found.

Finally I give in, sinking instead.

As life flits before my eyes, I see merpeople come to my side,

Laughing at the human who thought she could swim

Through an ocean of pain, sin, and loss.

I quit listening look at the light

 Fading rapidly, as into the depths I go.

Cephalopods that none have ever seen,

Glow around me, beautiful and strange.

I sink deeper and deeper still.

Seeing things that no one has before.

I settle on the ocean floor, in awe of all that surrounds me,

The glow of the creatures around me show what no human will ever glimpse.