A weak bellowing echoing across the dunes
One last call for help
Heat shimmering across the sand
Sun slowly drying
A beautiful giant of the sea
Once so free, so strong and powerful
Now stranded - helpless
Footsteps on the sand
A sound of hope for a dying soul
Cool, lifegiving water splashed across parched skin
The slap of a flipper on the sand
A push, a shove
This kind human providing a saving hand
Can you imagine
his feeling of setting a captive free?
Can you imagine
the joy there would be?
To hear that haunting song
To see the wave of a flipper in the distance
One last final thanks
To kindness across humanity.
a.s.
Aug 24, 2014
Aug 24, 2014 at 6:57 PM UTC
A weak bellowing echoing across the dunes
One last call for help
Heat shimmering across the sand
Sun slowly drying
A beautiful giant of the sea
Once so free, so strong and powerful
Now stranded - helpless
Footsteps on the sand
A sound of hope for a dying soul
Cool, lifegiving water splashed across parched skin
The slap of a flipper on the sand
A push, a shove
This kind human providing a saving hand
Can you imagine
his feeling of setting a captive free?
Can you imagine
the joy there would be?
To hear that haunting song
To see the wave of a flipper in the distance
One last final thanks
To kindness across humanity.
a.s.
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