RIPTIDE

Do not swim into one

unless you want to be part of the ocean

which I understand we all are anyway

Why fight it? If you stay on land 

you will still be part of the ocean

although you will be living in the part

of the world that is not the ocean

until shops and buildings and schools

and warehouses die and turn to dust

and then water and then glue

and become more human and then too

are part of the ocean and so on Lord 

knows, though, we cannot wait so long.

The ocean is too greedy and impatient 

for that. Remember:

you are the ocean, you have all those terrible possibles

of all thoughts, and you are everything and you are wet.