A Plummet

You dropped me from your hand
Like any stone
And I plummeted down deep
Through black bay waters

Falling, I could not stop falling
Through bottomless dark
And I cried going down
Among the winter waters

I called your name tumbling
Through cold, continuing black
And I thought you might dive
In your diver's suit, down, down

To rescue me, take me by your careless hand,
Close your fingers over mine,
And with a change of heart
Cling to me as we rose to light

It was only after a long while
Falling through the dark
And no longer calling
And no longer crying

I knew it was too deep
Now for you to come
And it had always been
Too deep for you to come

To where the raptures are