When I die, my atoms will come undone

Written By Chloë Rain
ghosts in the garden at sunset, Palace De Versailles, France

ghosts in the garden at sunset, Palace De Versailles, France

When I die,

my atoms will come undone.

I’ll be space dust, once again.

                     

The wind will carry me,

and scatter me everywhere,

like dandelions in springtime

                     

I’ll visit worlds and alien moons,

it will be so damn poetic-

until I land on your sandwich.

Garden of Versailles at sunset, Palace De Versailles, France

Garden of Versailles at sunset, Palace De Versailles, France

I do not know the author of this poem, I've searched the internet over, please if you know or find the source, share it here. I would love to acknowledge the source. These photographs were taken in the Garden of Versailles on a magical day.

One of my friends asked "What will you do when you land on my sandwich?"

I replied,  "I will nourish you, be swallowed up and go into your inner world, where I will burst into flames, and become one with you and all the Universe."

Wisdom of the Four Directions
Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain is a spiritual director and ceremonial guide whose work is rooted in the initiatory cycles of nature and the deep intelligence of living earth traditions. After more than a decade of apprenticeship within North and South American medicine lineages — and graduate research in the Arctic Circle exploring sacred landscape and Indigenous cosmology through a Master’s degree in Indigenous Studies — her work now continues from a small island in the Cyclades in the heart of the Aegean Sea.

She offers one-to-one spiritual direction and private retreats for those navigating profound change, life transitions, and soul alignment.


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or explore retreats → seasonal ceremonial work.

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