Underworld

    She stayed there laying in the great roots, covered with a blanket of moist earth, resting.  She made a vow never to move nor ever go anywhere again.  Her mother accepted her choice fully without a word as she accepted all of her children's wills.  The acorns dotting the rich soil all hers, the grass seeds waving in the wind all hers, the pollen floating in the atmosphere all hers.  She was the one great source of all life above and below, her great branches whispering lullabies as the girl rested.  In her deep inner journey she saw the beginning of all of the galaxies, the birth of all creation out of the sheer desire to be.  Her heart beat now one with the great mother of all, she had no more desire of her own.  The fairies braided her hair and painted her face.  She now lay, an offering.
    Yet that very moment when she was to be no more and merge with her source a rumble of the earth stirred her soul.  She felt it through her fingertips and the blood in her veins that had slowed now moved with the push a beat of her heart.  It was an ancient call that her soul remembered from long ago that she had promised to remember and never forget.  Softly her body rose from the earth and with none of her will, she walked to the shore.  Her finger tips had rested for the moment on the great mother's roots, before they separated from her touch.   The separation she felt washed through her without mercy as her body moved towards the beach.  Her form was now clad in a spider silk gown that shimmered in the face of the great moon above, whose form was full now and the land below was lit with moon beams that made it glow from within.  The breeze circled her skin softly getting her ready.  When she stepped on the great protruding rocks, overlooking the water, the pull of her body caused her to dive, head first, into the waters.  Her form moved easily through the water as if each muscle knew exactly what to do.  Diving deeper and deeper she would not stop, this time her form perfectly suited for the depths.  There was nothing but silence within her.  At a point the feeling that water was penetrating her skin, caused her lungs to expand, sensing the oxygen separate from the water for her use.  It felt more natural then anything prior so there was no cause for her to do anything but feel the serenity inside and around her as she descended.
    The cycle of life below as above, the infinity symbol resting vertically on the ocean line appeared in her mind.  A great mother whale with a calf looked at her smiling with her eyes as the calf swam up to touch her with his fin.  A spotted shark ten lengths of her body moved through the depths below, keeping his watchful gaze upon her.  Schools of fish of every color and shape like great prairies of wild flowers that moved in the wind, approached her, separated around her form, united again, and vanished just as quickly.  Turtles of three times her arm length swam past her uninterested, focused on their destination.