Whales' Song

“Dark rainbow bliss in the sea”,
comes to me in a dream, and so I hear
its poignant call.

Such heartfelt melodies;
soulful – sad songs, each to each.

Sequences – phrases repeated
time on time, and so they vocalise –
he to she.

But of what does he sing?
This – a secret she will carry
to her grave –

a secret old as the waves...
forever hers for the keeping
and ours for the asking;

she who carries their calves inside...
she who chooses not to harmonise.

And I awoke, wondering what it was
called to me; the songs, or the silence?

Yet, I would follow them, if I could,
to that place where the deepest waters
are the darkest blue.

(The first line from D.H. Lawrence’s poem, ‘Whales Weep Not!’)