She awoke to a frozen bedroom
In the still-dead of morning
A blue chill whispered itself onto her skin
As she rose to her window, seeing the ocean,
Touching her hand to the cold, humming glass
The waves were asking her to come and play
Because they were lonely
And so was she
She dreamed herself into the shivering water
Where a lurid virus was waiting
The lucidness of the mercury
Sifting through the green of the sea
She swallowed the poison in pearls
And it began to seep through her body
Creep into her ivory veins

How strange I feel
Floating alone in the sea
But sinking somehow
This paleness in my veins-
Putting me to sleep

But oh, she finds herself sitting upon
The white of the sand
The gray ocean softly roaring before her
Still, she dreams of that heavenly poison
Drowning out the salt of the sea
Staining her lips in eternal slumber-
Her weak body forever going under

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This poem is a rewrite of 'Mercury Ocean', a poem I wrote in October of 2003. I've been meaning to write it over, since I always was in love with the original idea of drowning in an ocean of mercury poison, but I felt as though the first poem wasn't strong enough.