Sharks

They are in fact immortal
With a grounding in the deep
Physical of flesh and blood
But their consciousness must weep
Really uncontrollably
For the negative result
Which took them from nirvana
To a humanoid assault

Groundless and unfounded
Nutritionally obscure
Absent from all sense at all
In fact not even pure
A thickener in point of fact
With a pithy meaty feel
And how the Chinese do react
When the AR folk reveal

For us it is an essential part
In the trough of life we be
Extraverts by accident
And our life in the sea
Is a circumstance of bearing
And intimacy

We know our place as predators
So there is no allusion here
We are analogous with balance
And we believe thats clear
Complete interaction
Everywhere we go
And a distinct identity
Of being in the flow

Jaws the book the film
Thrashed upon us all
It showed us in a different light
One that did appal
The frightened ones made more fearful
The confident they too
Took on the fear and upset
Giving expression to a few

Disorder in the ranks was felt
A true disharmony
We were all embroiled in squalor
In uproar and frenzy
A turbulence beyond our reach
A whirlwind of a day
Chaos ruled just every hour
We had no time for play

Hooks and lines were commonplace
The human breed appeared
Riotous and frantic
Many more now speared
They were lawless they were violent
We began to suffer so
We became disorientated
And not part of their show

Men came by to butcher us
Tear off our precious fins
Haul us up and cut us
And plonk us into tins
Toss our bleeding bodies back
Into the darkly mass
The ocean swallowed up our bodies
All of this seemed crass

The agony of existence
The beginning of our end
Above the surface of our ocean
No one was our friend
They all were out to kill us
In that they made it clear
When our fins broke through the surface
You could taste the fear

It was a wholesale panic
An epilogue of fate
Judgement all went haywire
Indeed what could create
Such fear among the humans
To see us in poor light
Even the surfers were wary
Its as if we were a blight

The unfathomable the limitless
The suddenness of time
Changes we could feel them
Fermenting in the chyme
Enduring this phenomena
Our permanence cut short
A kind of revolution
In everybody’s thought

A blistering attack on us
Our stamina and power
Which was once in the ascendant
But actually not so now
We are going through it
Our destruction is by far
The most wilful thing that has happened
For now sadly we are

Suffering lamentably
Victims everywhere
Lying on the bottom
Torn up with despair
Fins stacked high on quay sides
Even our babies too
All of us are suffering
Because of Jaws and YOU