Whale Song - a tribute.

 

Whales’ Song (for Susan)

 

They're the leviathans of the deep,

mournful singers whose songs

reach out,

across many oceans and seas,

calling for their families

wherever they may roam,

in a deep blue playground

of bittersweet memories

whales’ songs linger on.

 

She is alone, a cow with her grown son,

singing her way to a new beginning,

following the herd to Hawaii

and points,

north and south,

her song arching out for all to hear

some far, some near, some deaf to

her whale’s song.

 

Her path takes her many places,

and one day a new face appears,

sings back to her

in unison,

he, from a point so far away,

but his resonance echoes deep channels

across ocean’s floor,

echoes to whale’s song.

 

And they meet, mid-ocean, and frolic

in the gay abandon of knowingness,

singing the same tune,

playing the same games,

swimming the same channels

and, attuned, they go on

singing each other’s whale song,

together.