(Kind Of) Ever After

52-Hertz Whale

**Not Edited (Please ignore the grammar and spelling mistakes. ;A;)**

(Inspired by the song "Whalien 52" by BTS) (also this is my first poem-like thing so sorry if it's not great ;A;)

"He is a lone voice crying out for love in the wilderness. For years he has roamed singing unrequited songs of yearning, searching for a soul to share his solitary world. His plaintive love songs have been heard by many yet he has never been seen. He is the loneliest whale in the world.

...But although he swims in waters that are populated by thousands of other whales no female ever responds because his voice is unusually high for a whale - about 52 Hertz - which is what researchers have named him.

For many lovelorn humans 52 Hertz has come to symbolize the hopeless romantic in us all. "It's very sad that so many people identify with this whale," says marine biologist Mary Ann Daher of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, who co-authored the original research on the discovery of 52 Hertz.

"I receive letters, emails and poems - mostly from women - and it's heartbreaking to read some of the things they say. They identify with this animal who doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, doesn't make friends easily, feels alone and feels different from everybody."' (Article: "The Loneliest Whale in the World" by Peter Sheridan)

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in the center of this wide sea

one lonely whale speaks lowly

no matter how much she screams, the fact that it reaches no one

is bitterly lonely, she closes her mouth quietly

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Moana. Means "ocean, wide expanse of water, deep sea" in Maori and Hawaiian. 

And I, the ocean, am also the lonely whale.

If I scream loud enough, will someone hear me?

I feel like I'm drowning.

Someone, help me.

Listen to my voice

Please listen to my pleas.

I'm begging you

I need someone to hear me.

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lonely lonely lonely whale

singing alone like this

can even an out-of-the-way island such as myself

shine brightly?

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I've tried to reach for the stars.

I've tried to reach for the skies.

For all the tears I've cried,

How many were actually mine?

I'm alone,

My mind is so dark.

The sea is a deep abyss

I can't get out of.

They all say they want to be the sun to my bright day

When all I need is a flashlight for the dark.

I don't want the stars or the moon.

I just want someone to hear my tune.