Drowned VI: Mother Cetacean

Mother, human
Walks the sandy stage
Salt water spits at her feet
Mocking the death of her son
Her skull swollen with grief
Her heart throbbed a slow waltz
A rhythm with which she dances
Into the sea
Bodies of creatures ill-famed
Kissed by suns none
Possess abstract burdens
In which their young are devoured
The mother’s heart
Surrounded by crushed lung
Beats no more
Cetacean calls, for the death of their young
Mother human sinks, for the death of her son
Human swam towards their call
She swam…
Seized by sub-aqueous tide
Human and whale sank even further
Deeper, deeper, deeper
The trench beckons equivalence
Mother
The burdening depth of the sea
Has swallowed your son
Cetacean
The burdening depth of the sea
Has swallowed your young
Mother
The burdening depth of the sea
Has swallowed your son
I drown