Unbecoming

First you kick off your pretty shoes

Scrape off the grime you collected on the road, from in between your toes

You feel the sand beneath your feet

Wade into the ocean up to your knees and chuck off your coat

And all the secrets you tucked in between your breasts

If there is any gold on your person, let it drown 

it will only weigh you down

Then you must gather your skirts about you, 

Loosen your briefs

And give them in to the breeze. 

Still, you are not done yet

Strip off your underwear, 

until you are as bare 

as the day you were born

Still, you are not free yet

Unravel your skin from the bone

Like ribbon and bow

Revealing vein and organ

Still you are not even close

Divide bone and marrow

Still your pulse and heartbeat

But that's not everything 

Dissolve your memories, collect your dreams like plunder 

Allow them to slip under

Until you are but fibre

More organism than conscious being

Still, you are too far. 

Evaporate, dissolve all you are

Return to the void of the womb 

A bundle of cells recently joined. 

Still, there is more

Return to the dark vastness of space

The birthplace of time

Yet, more is hidden

Return to utter nothingness 

silent except for a voice in the distance

At the edge of life, tipping back and forth 

But nary does it fall

To where you were everything and nothing at all

Finally, you have unbecome

Artist featured : Danica Gim