it is the belief of every whale
that when it has finally ceases to be itself
that it will sink into the darkness
and the things that it consumed in life
will explode into a garden, walled by distance and depth
---
and, in this quiet isolation, it will be remembered
as an act of creation. as a seed. a god
this belief is felt in all its organs
but, in their final dissolution, organs have little use for belief
that is to say, I have been freed of my obligations
The Fall by Jana H.S., page 8