Lithium Sea

The air is open-ended, The wind sends a whisper through my spinal cord at lightning speed Acres upon acres of oceanic scenery plunging itself into my irises The horizon is as wide as the Milky Way You can see where the opaque waters begin to blend with the stubborn clouds As they cling to the starless sky, Refusing to budge, No matter how much the wind demands of them My vision wanders down to my feet, Bare, And planting themselves into the solid ledge I’m standing on Exactly one foot ahead of me, A precipitous drop Into a vast, daunting ocean An unforgiving terrain Devoid of all color, Infected by a mass of sediments The sound of its jaws clasping onto its invisible prey, Satiating its endless desire Left a sharp ringing in the tubes of my ears I’m fossilized in my place, But something is urging me to march, Urging me to risk it all, But what else do I have? I tear my heel bone off of the freezing ground Like a bandaid off of a freshly lacerated wound, Mechanizing my aching joints As I hover five dangling toes over an abyss of demented liquids I don’t need to inhale, The pulsating breeze is doing that for me I take one final look upon my fate, Block my vision with the walls of my eyelids, And fall… Fall like an Autumn leaf… Stopping at times, As if time were unsure, Then resuming my rapid descent And all at once, the water hits me, Rushing up from my achilles heel To the last towering hair follicle upon my head Electrifying every nerve in my body, Sending my heart into overdrive The water floods into my body, Coursing down my throat, Pervading my lungs like a proletariat of worker bees Elevating itself into my brain Splitting it in half, And examining it, Judging it, Bringing the fears of my subconscious From a blank page into reality I never wanted this Nobody wants this, But sometimes I just can't part the waves of a Lithium Sea