The Song of the Ancients

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Listen, friends.
Do you hear the song
of the ancient ones
floating on the breeze?

Can you hear the cries
of the wild ones?
Do you feel
all the broken human
and beyond-human hearts
sorrowing
across Mother Earth?

Let's join our energy
with that of the elders,
to sing in the mystical whales,
guardians of our collective wisdom
since the world was young.
Let's send our hearts
to the edge of the cliff,
where the wise ones have gathered
through millennia.

In spirit, let us
sing the whales into the bay,
as the First People have done
through all of time.
They are waiting
for our song.

A poem inspired by  Julian Lennon's song, Saltwater, and also by his film about the aborigines and the whales, titled Whaledreamers.