The Albino Dolphin of Taiji “Shouju” or Angel as some have called her

The Taiji Museum

is now to where

they go to watch the little calf

whose despair

is evidenced by the continued

refrain

as she circles the tank again and again

the caption reads she looks

to find her mama

but reality told her

that she is far

far away in the land where all dead dolphins go

at the hand of the japanese

she does now know

her mother chose suicide

she coudn’t bear

to see her babe captured

a baby so rare

she knew she would die

at their hands anyway

and took it on herself

to die and to pay

the ultimate sacrifice

that final fling

she went down to the bottom

and just couldn’t bring

herself back to seeing

the inevitable, she

knew her sweet baby

was lost tragically

Those fishermen realised

what they had there

was money in the bank

a yen storm so rare

they split up the family

but they didn’t care

if the mother died

they were all  unaware

a hard race of cold hearted

people who will

take the advantage

blood they will spill

it matters not to them

for what they do

the albino dolphin

is there still on view

its frustrating swim

it mum on its mind

as for the rest of its journey

its blind

to life as we know it

one day it will go

the way of its mother

that fact we all know

it knows she’s  not there

for her voice it is quiet

no communication

out of the light

she swims round and round

in her cycle of fear

a lost soul

her main role

to remind us

its clear