It’s ill-advised
to bleed in waters
filled with hungry sharks.
Because they sense
the scent of weakness
emanating from you..
even when it’s
deathly dark.

In silence,
they gaze past
The One
who they intend
to bite.
And only when
you least expect it..
you are ambushed
by a-many thousands
of their pearly whites.

Alas,
if you’re committed
to submerging
with an open wound
into their homestead..
Don’t dive unarmed,
but rather
bearing with you
The All-Equalizer
of The Ocean.

A harpoon that,
through the bullseye,
strikes the great white
just about as good
as dead.