Leviathan
Up from the deep
massive, sleek
moving in undulating patterns
bespeaking eons
of evolution to perfection
for fluid sinuous
Being
in a world vast and echoing
Through silver-blue
light offerings
she rises
meeting waves cresting
wind driving white horses
cloud spirits convening
in a rush to return
being called home
The lonely heart beats
calling to her side
Others
a song long remembered
reverberates
through viscous blue walls
eating the miles
to the ends of the earth
A chant of the ages
tribal and rich
telling stories
ancestral memories passed
of a people
a time
when the oceans sang
sweet and abundant
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The tribe has dispersed
spirits are broken
the waters were red
filled with screams
and dying songs
falling on deaf ears
of a murderous
unknowing invader
She sings to her family
songs of redemption
calls to the oceans
carry her home
fulfilling
a life’s imperative
a species swan song
forgiveness in death
They are but a whisper
in a world going silent
a vast beauty
desecrated
raped and diminished
an ageless visage
still of unimaginable beauty
fading into the distance
Must you go? |
