sinking            

        an immediate shiver

shot down my spine

   a goosebump epidemic  

                    across my ghost like skin

   as if I had just been electrocuted,

my eyes shoot open

          wide like a fish

ironic

my cheeks bubble

               holding my last source of oxygen

  a string of slime wraps up my leg

                       I jerk suddenly

     to release myself from the ocean’s grass

looking down

  I see what I imagine a black hole would look like

            nothing

just a deep, empty black

my muscles reach a frozen numbing

    arms and legs now hang like noodles

                          the ocean itself begins to swirl me around

like a straw

            whirling around an ice cube left over from a cold drink

sinking

lower

       lower

               lower

a magnificent creature floats by

                      blue with dazzling yellow/gold gills

      and a subtle flapping fin

                    satisfying

  for my last sight

              my eyelids peacefully close

my long, full eyelashes resting on my pale cheeks

                    now just swaying

        rocking

just like how my mother used to when I couldn’t sleep as a baby