-the swim

       
I was captured by a vision where the water        
was clear and the fish swam belly up; for        
some reason I wasn't surprised how it made        
me cry, grinning wide, like I was the first        
pirate to see what had been plundered...        
       
I thought, you must die in order to be reborn;      
it felt like I was replying to a question that had        
been patiently waiting to be asked, while in that      
same moment, I found myself lying in a place      
seemingly familiar, yet having no trace of who      
I had been prior to the swim; perhaps there's      
simply no need to remember, at least I feel      
no obligation...

-ed