Rinsed by sea spray and white surf
Fuelled by sunlight warming the blue waters
Music created by the clattering sea shells
The seagull, beautiful and majestic
Born to be free
Flying to exotic shores
Addicted to speed, to solitude
A life filled with adventure but an empty heart
Until it meets the turtle
Swimming just below the surface
The turtle, wise and calm
Moving slowly, ageing forever
An aquatic explorer
A heart full of the ocean’s secrets
So much to share, to care
The seagull and the turtle
His passion and her patience
His impulsiveness and her sentimentality
His flight and her strokes
Wings and flippers
Perfectly in sync
Until one day
When the seagull in his relentless journey
Spots a foreign shore
Glittering, tempting
He is drawn towards it
Driven to explore
Farther and farther he flies
Leaving the turtle behind
She cries out for attention, he ignores her
His own mission is far more important
Excitedly he reaches his destination
Only to discover
The light that beckoned to him
Is but a swarm of fireflies
a family of insects, getting together for dinner
He is an uninvited guest, he cannot stay
So the seagull flies back
But the turtle has disappeared
She has dived into the deep currents
Unwilling to wait for him any longer
This time he waits, willingly
But she does not surface
And the seagull circles overhead
Calling out to her
His cries fall on deaf waves
And the seagull moves on
He lives a full and healthy life
He doesn’t die of sorrow
But the most tender, the most delicate feather
On his white body
Blackened and died
Unnoticed
The day the seagull lost the turtle
to the vast ocean.
