All That Is

A Poem by AriaTargaryen

Today I feel off

A thread spun from machine

Frayed into an ubiquitous tangle

Of whatever may be

A chilling coming

Embers, sparks and ash

Frozen over as cadaverous statues

Whom breathe not

Her fleshy cinders

Fishermen above

Cast their trawls

Upon me

Reeling up heart and spleen

Into their terraces

Shriveled as shrimp

My soul curled up in the lattice

Of ill-entwined nets

Watching from below,

I squirm and squeal

Praying their nets rupture

Split farther than

My fraying fragments

And let my soul spill through the twists

Yet tatter they not,

The fishermen's trawls

Soon spleen soaked into clouds

and my thumping heart

Had its finale

Limp limbs,

I hung my hollow skull,

Before dipping beneath the silken skin

Of the Tasman’s aqueous reach

Particles,

Spilling out

Mingling with the seductive sea

I let them go,

What had i to cling to?

An eyeless shell that somehow sought

What was left to see?

So off they went

What once was I

Into turquoise foams,

Bubbling droplets

Splashing over swimmer’s feet

And I was no more

Inseparable from her all-consuming currents

Her thread-spun ripples

Her ubiquitous tangle

A tangle once despised

A nemesis fought a lifetime

Yet as I merged with sea’s insecure flux

I knew

There is no tangle,

no ally nor invader

No net, no fisherman,

No spleen

And no I

Then,

An exploding bliss

From the cores of conception

Pulsed through the atmosphere and

heart trenches of man

The Tasman lept in triumphal bursts

A smiling sigh rolled ashore

For at last we knew,

There is nothing to know

For this is all that is.

Author's Note

Any criticism welcome, i'm new at poetry and have not read much so I'd really appreciate suggestions for improvement. Is it too wordy? How is the flow?

Personally, I can see it being a bit confusing haha.

Also the Tasman Sea is a random sea i chose for those who don't know