NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 16


Ascending elevation to the New Mexican signage

the continental divide, a place where rivers choose 

their destiny, their final resting place, they all flow 

To an ocean, and I think, which one will you choose?


Besides ashes to ashes we are water

Which plants will I wet as biological refuse

If I am planted in the ground a single oak or maybe elm

If I am cremated my steam might dampen a neighborhood  

If I convert greenly, my water may become your drinking water


Awestruck, tears roll down my cheeks, evaporate

Into the water cycle, the earths cycle, the cycle of life




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