Inheritance Without an Owner

The ocean.

Could it be ours?

But we did not create it,

We received it.

But if not as a gift,

then as what?

Maybe as a responsibility?

Would that not be contradictory?

Who would receive an inheritance

and not take care of it?

With so much waste,

perhaps more plastic than fish.

In a future when pollution be no longer an option,

will there still be something left

to be passed on to the future?