Blue Wail

Blue Wail My head says futile, my heart keeps faith A journey so long for one lonesome waif Steadfastly onwards, my heart rules my mind As on I endeavour, that one I might find These limitless seas that I wander alone Carry the sounds of my beseeching tone If one might reply ’cross my vast ocean home In search of another, together we’d roam Yet when you’re the biggest creature on Earth And nought has come close since your mother gave birth All you can do is endeavour to find A single companion of your own kind Men used to hunt us with boats armed with darts They’d tie us aside and harpoon our hearts But now an eleventh hour human decree Allows me to go with a new sanctity A tardy reprieve for a creature like me As I roam every ocean and search every sea But it’s late in my day and though I be free Another Blue Whale is the longing in me (Inspired by the John Gordon Davis 1976 novel ‘Leviathan’ which suggests that a Blue Whale can live its entire life and never encounter another)