Reading this poem felt like a breather in a way. I really enjoyed the feelings it gave me like a peace of mind, an escape from my current life, but also to picture my life in a different way. There was a specific part of the poem that stuck with me, “It has been there since before the beginning of tragedy”. It put into perspective how big, impactful, and strong the Ocean truly is but yet it’s still neglected for what it really is. It made me stop to think what does the Ocean know that humans don’t? What is the Oceans endurance to the damage that is always done to it? From this single stanza I was able to see how my life and what I think are “major” problems are really a speck in comparison to this huge body of water.

Another point in the poem that made me picture life in a different place was, “You can spend your life benthic, or brackish” as it makes me question if life in water is possible? I decided to look up the word benthic which is simply anything that is at the bottom of a body of water and I couldn’t help to think about the mermaid stories we’ve read and how they all take place living at the bottom of the sea. So can this mean that living at the bottom of the Ocean is indeed possible? How would life be down there? Or is there already life right under our noses? This poem brought out so many questions to me as it lets me try to picture things in a different lens as anything was possible instead of being impossible.