challenger deep

to fall into deep water
and sink

all my life i am swimming
treading the surface
the cave underneath far and distant
always there
cold and vast
(almost inviting in the heat
sweat
effort
of summer)

the blue hole
lake baikal

to you who have never braved from the shallows
how do i explain the call

it is not falling
(sudden crash and over
a shock of brokenness
a blink)

but a dive
a sinking

home is the company of eyeless fish
who never dream of sunlight