Life is an ocean,

We begin as the rain,

Falling from the sky

Wrapped in our mothers pain.

We're dropped into the sea,

The ocean of life,

Rocked by the waves

Of joy and strife.

Some of us learn

To kick and swim,

Forging our own paths

Though that blue-green.

Others prefer to lay on their

Backs, floating on crests,

Letting life move them

As they rest.

Then, one by one,

We sink below the waves

To our salty, watery,

Sea-green graves.