Treading Water

I have been treading the water of the universe For 15,845 days Head slightly above the water Arms and legs in a frantic dance for survival You can tell yourself that at some point you will stop There must be a stopping point, right? The time to float seems like a luxury you have earned But for today, day 15,845 you will keep treading If you feel the water begin to creep up If the universe seems bound to rise against you You may want to flail about like a fish on the sand But believe me, it will be useless Better to sink into the water Let the blackholes devour you And come to find that what you always needed Was the sinking Sink in to the deep Fall in to the vastness of the void Stare with terror at the tide of destruction Embrace your fate And then Emerge to find that what you thought was an ending Is really a beginning That the strange new shore upon which you find yourself Is a paradise for the aching limbs that struggled for so long You can float here In the undulating waves Of the new world In a universe you found in your destruction