Its just a Figure of Speech:
“To loose your life to the Sea”

Also called:
Meeting your Ancestors
Going to Heaven
Moving on to the next Dimension
Leaving your Body
Kicking the Bucket ; D

Or simply: To die

Well, all the same
you are gone
and your body is left here
for a certain time
to degenerate
and you as a person
might live on in memory
inside the people who loved you
in one way or another

“To loose your Life to the sea”
is just a figure of speech
about a matter of Life or Death
=> ergo, some serious matter ; D

Well, honestly i can see a lot of good things
in “to loose my life to the sea”
Happy, lighthearted things
that make me smile

For starters, it sounds much better to my ears
than, lets say: “To loose my life to a car or a truck or a roadside bomb”
or to the ubiquitous cancer or heart attack
that is so much in fashion these days

Or old age. Barely able to walk without oxygen tank
not to mention walk at all
remember a thing, still knowing my own name ; D
and so on
just be finished

so many ways
to kiss my sweet self goodbye

So of all the many options to leave
i have always favored the idea
of giving my body over to the sea
when i feel that my time is coming

Easy!
Find a nice beach
Sunset
Swim out
Out
Out
Out

Never to return

No funeral needed
No heavy gravestones
No dark dresses

Only Happiness
among my loved ones
who know
that i have done it
the way i wanted to do it

Have returned my body to the waters
that birthed me
my body returned to the elements
of his origins

And Me?

I LIVE ON
JUST AS ALWAYS

FREE

FOR THE NEXT JOURNEY

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.
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Well … why all this talk about death and such?

Because today in Barrigona i have come close to this situation
just not exactly because i have chosen it

After a glorious day i went into the water
one last time to cool off

Big waves, yes
Full moon making them stronger
Diving thru them to get
Further out
Into calmer waters

But waves coming faster and faster
Tumbling me up and down
And all around

Sucking me under
And straight into the next one
Hardly enough time
To catch a breath

I knew that i am in trouble

Relax boy! Relax the panic!
Breath
Breath, take your time to orientate
Use the currents
Use your body as surfboard
Let the waves carry you
towards the shore

And yes! It worked, it worked!
But even close to shore
the back-drift of the water was so strong
it just sucked me back out

Again and again

Till finally one big enough wave delivered me
gasping onto the muddy sand

Smiling, twinkling
she said:
“See! I am awesome power”
“And i will wait for you”

And i was grateful for that
because my time
has not yet come!

Still there is a lot to do here
Lots of good things
Lots that i wish to do

be4 the Big Swim