She doesn't live here anymore

Graves are a nuisance to upkeep, she said, 

Burn me and chuck my ashes in the sea, you'll be free

So will I, I'll be the sea. 

How lonely, I thought 

How lonely it'd be to become the sea, and to have a mother 

Who became the sea. 

 

I cremated her and 

sent the ashes to the Swiss. 

How funny, I thought, her death plans were also 

with the Swiss, but 

she did not need assistance with 

Her suicide. 

 

When they knock I don't speak of 

her death, instead I say:

She doesn't live here anymore. 

She wanted to become the sea, but I paid the Swiss to pressurize her ashes

Into a diamond

Neither of us is free, how lonely

death is

How do I speak of it