#The Whale.

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gray gale
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I sat in the centrepiece room of the aquarium today.
Surrounded by sharks, giant turtles, stingrays and all types of fish.
People watched on, listened to the marine biologist narrate “the day in the life of a turtle” as she fed them their daily feeds.
She’d even given them names.
Something to make them feel more human I guess.

My brain shut off and became drawn to the atmospheric, tranquil meditation music in the background.
I paid no mind to all the silhouettes around me, everyone laughing and joking and gaping in awe at all of God’s creatures putting on a show for their very eyes.

I shut my eyes briefly, and as I opened them back up it was as though all the chaos around me had stopped.
I had truly stopped time.
Now I was a shark, or a turtle, or a stingray in the middle of the Pacific.

Floating away from the frivolities and expectations that come with being a member of humankind.
There was simply a crisp blue hue in front of me, and for miles behind.

The calm of whales sung me soothing lullabies in the far away distance.
Creatures of all colours pirouetted around me.
I could finally be at peace with the Earth, with God’s creations at my side.

So many different shapes and sizes and colours all dancing in sync, simply because they were made like that. The ocean, the earth’s creatures fitting together like a perfect puzzle.
I could at last swim away from everything that had held me back.
I drifted through the ocean blue, endlessly for miles and miles.

After an endless time, I saw a creature before me:
A giant blue whale.
God’s greatest, most majestic creation.
I watched in wonder as it slid seamlessly through the ocean’s embrace, it’s cries echoing into very edges of the earth.
Like a spectator at a Ballet show,
I sighed in sheer bewilderment at the beauty I had witnessed.

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I gazed at the whale’s eyes, and it gazed right back,
as though we were peering right into each other’s souls.
After some time,
the great blue whale appeared to smirk at me.
The colours of the ocean became a dark
abyss and the whale’s smirk became a gaping white grin.

The whale started laughing at me, as though mocking me for momentarily convincing myself that the Ocean was my new reality.
The distant laughter became more and more prominent,
chirping and endless cheer filled the room until it soon became clear to me that reality was creeping back in, and a woman thanked the audience for listening to her presentation.
A tear dropped down my cheek,
as I realised the cold hard truth:
I was back to the real world again.

Back to being a human, back to the frivolities, back to a 9-5 life filled with buildings and cars, mundane talks of weather and food and money and shoes and finding a human I can just about tolerate for a time, at least enough that I promise them forever to just cut and run 10 years down the line because what do vows mean, right?

Back to throwing my whole self away to give it all to a tiny human who is just being brought into a decaying Earth, raising them and working, raising them and working, rinse repeat rinse repeat until I retire and have just about enough energy at the age of 70 to make myself a cup of tea and watch the songbirds at dawn as I read the morning news about devastation and contemplate my existence. Oh, and attend my doctors appointments for the inevitable health concerns be it dementia, heart issues or the terrible C, I guess I’ll take my pick of the three. If I'm lucky I get all three at once: jackpot!

To simply disintegrate at the end of time until I am a mere footnote in a conversation my future offspring will one day have, “you remember the time mum burnt the turkey at Christmas?”

So far distanced, from the endless space and transcendence of the Ocean I had always craved as home.

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@tepid shell

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@ionic verge @hearty prairie

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this one’s kinda morbid blanc sorry

tepid shell
tepid shell
gray gale
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@uncut venture

ionic verge
tepid shell
gray gale
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@topaz shore @sudden jetty @warped vault @regal zenith

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@tepid shell your voice does not work for this poem though! 😢 it’s too MORBID

calm anvilBOT
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*@Blanc.N0te your

voice does not work for this poem

though! 😢 it’s too MORBID*

- centares
gray gale
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it’s sad depressing as f

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not even meant to be

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but it came out that way i guess

tepid shell
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🤣

gray gale
tepid shell
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wonderful read @gray gale sending virtual hugs your way too

gray gale
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im
fine fr

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this is just my existential crisis in a poem

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i always wanted to move to the ocean and i never wrote about it

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i have the
ocean tattooed on my arms lol

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but today i went to the aquarium with my niece and with writers
block and this all
HIT me

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had a good time though, despite

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@cinder nest

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@ruby geode @analog gulch

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@tame adder

gray gale
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@rotund current

gray gale
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@regal zenith

gray gale
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@regal zenith final time

regal zenith
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i got ya

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lol

ruby geode
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Mmmmmmm.

You somehow took me with you along that dissociative meditation astral projection hallucination adventure.

And the rage.

Ugh.

I wanna eat it.

ionic verge
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This poem
Is

Indescribable

analog gulch
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yeah i feel like in certain parts the lines can be shorter but the language you use is already good

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and i recommend on working the format more on this piece

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but i really do like the prose for this piece but it does need some refinements so it read more fluidly

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I gazed at the whale’s eyes, and it gazed right back,
as though we were peering right into each other’s souls.
After some time,
the great blue whale appeared to smirk at me.
The colours of the ocean became a dark
abyss and the whale’s smirk became a gaping white grin. I also like this stanza's imagery too

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God’s creatures putting on a show for their very eyes. "before" not "for"

calm anvilBOT
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*God’s creatures putting

on a show for their very

eyes.* "before" not "for"

- vardomc.
gray gale
rotund current
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I can usually

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Same atleast

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Something

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But

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I’m

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Absolutely

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Floored

signal ruin
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hmm so I'll advise you that work on the format and there's some lines that could be said in less words but still it's a great piece with good langauge and i love that. great work keep it up

gray gale
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thank you... the ending about life was supposed to be kind of long about the frivolities of life and adulthood and the inevitable death.. yeah i do need to work on formatting