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# The Sea
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/the-sea/
- Published: 2016-02-10T02:26:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T15:19:42.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Reflections, #13

The sea has swallowed me.  
  
I knew it would happen, one day:  
Being *Meredith, of the sea, from the sea*;  
Being *Mer, just the sea*, returning to my home,  
Returning to me.  
  
But I thought it would happen with the sea:  
While sailing,  
While swimming,  
While surfing.  
  
Yet, I see a world of shimmering currents  
Flowing with insta-moments,  
Captured in my memory.  
  
I forget that I can breathe under water,  
That I can flow with water,  
That I am water…  
  
Or mostly thereof.  
  
The sea has swallowed me,  
And it is hard to breathe.  
  
Breathe,  
Breathe…  
  
Inhale your substance,  
Be free in yourself,  
Sail in your existence,  
Swim,  
*Be alive.*  
  
It is not a bubble that permits my life,  
But waves and waves of my essence.  
  
I am free;  
I am merely mistaken:  
I have thought myself to be  
  
*Not* myself,  
Not *of* myself,  
  
But a foreign entity.  
  
Yet, I am free.  
  
Still, I am me.