Whales

All life's glorious shipwrecks

Come finally to their rest
We are Titans becalmed by fate

Upon calm seas of fine threads

Where rocky pillows of instance

Break hubris to a lapping loyalty

The whales of fortune have dived

Fled into the deeps of younger seas

But all wonder is not yet vanished

As a lover, I was alas, poor interest

So now only as a warm companion

Welcome onto my watery divan

And we may still caress, or embrace

Though no pearls will we now find

Upon a sandy décolletage at dawn

Like a languorous foam on slow tides
We shall float away the remaining days

Indolence will triumph on the high sea

Though no good people of elegance

May stay buoyant and free forever

We shall let the waves, take us away

On one last journey over the horizon

Following the day's descending sun

Till we are under the new rising moon

And then the sea may close about us
For life's voyage is not so bad, after all