My Primary School Blue Whale

You are the largest creature

Of our dear planet, I was told

In my primary school G.K.

My awe was entwined with love

for you,  when I got to know

Even though you could enclose

Twenty elephants in your belly

You needed, to nourish you,

Only tiny fish!

O creature of the blue waters

How evil minds have created ways

To vilify your name

A deadly game, named after you

is up for kids to play

And it has devoured over a hundred

Human children believed to be

Engrossed in harmless fun

You never did such a ghastly act!

My heart bursts with burning anger

Against those who device

Such devilish traps

To prey on unsuspecting souls

To chain and drag them to the hell

Of dark, doorless depression!

O man, are you so beyond redemption

That you have turned wolves

To your own children?

Xavier Bage

Sat, September  o9, 2017