A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, A12 – freeverse poetry. Looking at Ping and the ocean in the first Dragonkeeper book.
The Ocean
Once upon a time
it was only tales: far-off dreams
that a small ant in its hole
could never fulfil
And the world was so frighteningly big a place
that an ocean may well have been the edge,
after death
And even their journey there
and seen, oft, a dream
Until she stood upon its shores
and stared: at
the ocean, large and in life.
