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)
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