Poetry from Ari Nystrom Rice

I will dissolve when I die

start six feet under, and the water table will rise

and I will be carried away into you

so I give myself to you now.

You are the ocean

and all things return to you.

All things return

but two parts of me stay.

One part is lost at sea

and the other part is searching for it.

And I cannot find either.

They are both dissolving as I surely will

The ocean is powerful like that

But I am losing myself.

And you have me.

So I give myself to you now.

I will dissolve entirely.

I will be the entirety of the ocean

I will be so much

so small.

I will be a portrait of myself.

You will be the entirety of me

I will not be the entirety of you.

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