I feel as though I know you,
Hanging there,
With the biggest smile in Christendom.
Did you know I fell in love,
Standing there, with someone special,
Looking up at your ample belly?
So what have you got to smile about?
Did you send coded messages
Through the deep and vast ocean
To some far distant mate?
And when she arrived,
Did you dance with joy,
Waving your massive tail
In the Pacific
sunlight?
I hope so.
For I come to see you often
And I think of you as happy
Though your friends have oft been murdered
For the price of a candle.
I shall never know how you fared in
the vasty deep
But I shall never forget you
Sibbaldus musculus
The Blue Whale