l took a plunge into ocean deeps -
Slow dragging drown, or so it seemed,
Silent and glugging, gurgling bubbles
Through blue and breathless, sinking fear;
Water surrounding the brain and ears,
Pink seahorses, corals, purple bloated
Fishes playing in formations, dancing
And dazzling with hitherto unseen amazing
Sights of miracle, in the final moments
Of life - or so it seemed;
Until the ocean became a black wall
Of blind, final gasp;
And consciousness fizzled into fading pins
Of flickering light, and all was lost
Without pain, at last; until at last
After eons of oblivion I surfaced onto
A white-sanded shore, of blissful warmth,
Sun, and perfumes of lemon-flowers
Wafted by lovely gentle winds
Beside a heavenly blue sea, and under
A paradise sky of soft infinite expanse,
And felt my eyelids lift
At the sweet kisses of a beautiful and kind
Nymph, lulling me away from fear,
Smiling me to sweetest, gentlest peace.