bait

the salty depths
know no satisfaction
seaweed hands grasp for feet
they shake, we shake it off
to continuously reach up
how can you long for connection
when you're blindly grabbing?

you have to study your subjects
study the divers brave enough to brush your tendrilws
wait with your mouth open, turn your light on
(you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar)

if you're going to wait to be amused
i suggest you grab on when you see it
divers will get more and more rare when
you've got a shark circling your waters.

a shark who means well enough,
whose ego causes him to circle his little colony
that stays lit even when his home isn't being threatened

it might look like your seaweed is ineffective
but really you've awakened their phantom limbs.
they feel your grasp, long after you're gone
but by then, they don't know where that seaweed went
and your grasp isn't long enough to touch them at the surface\

so they look for another place to dive.