to an ocean of opportunity
daunting in its tidal fury
or seductively inviting
hiding sharks and sharp coral
they came unsuspecting, leaped

an offering to neptune or
a siren's capture
a morsel for a moment
forgotten in the endless cycle
they ceased to be them

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