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Plummet

David Ungvary

Keep this in mind: be it a grain of sand

or a mammoth rock, they sink as the same.

And when they each reach their resting places

mem’ries of their falls are lost in the dark;

not even one creature can remember

the muffled sound of landing made that day,

or if the murky depths were stirred at all.

The fish glide by, unmoved by their presence

and the whales’ eerie groans can still be heard.

No one dives down just because they wonder

how they came to be, sinking in the sea.

Not even the beaches or peaks miss you.

Since they’ve kept this in mind; they’re all the same.