One day 

I'm going to slip inside of the opening of water

Freezing to the touch 

My arm hairs stand like an intense erection

My nipples are steel tokens.

I can't swim. 

But I slip deeper underneath the surface. 

Layers of liquid grow above me. 

I allow the current to take me to the underbelly of the water

I pass a school 

Of the most beautiful sea inhabitants 

With vivid colors like Kenti cloths 

They greet me

I swear on a stack of biblical texts that they smiled at me

Nature communicating.

They touch their slippery scales over my skin 

The touch is unfamiliar but I say thank you 

I run into territories where I am not wanted 

My toenails graze the defensive spikes of others 

I am frightened. 

Why am I here again?

Yes, I am traveling to another universe 

Underneath the body of the aquatic paradise. 

Underneath the land mass that I know 

Underneath the 30 story apartment buidling 

There is a world that I am seeking. 

Nirvana maybe

Maybe this is what Cobain imagined

Maybe this is the place everyone travels when they have left Earth's tangible dimension. 

I hope to get there because I can no longer breath

I clutch my neck with painted fingernails. 

My face is turning blue I assume 

Oxygen is floating around me but not inside of me 

And then stillness. 

After what seems like eternity, the lids of my eyes pry open

I am surrounded by nature. 

Its ceremonious. 

But I've reached my destination. 

Only a place that exists after the after. 

After the omega. 

After the stillness.

I cough to see if I am real.