Ambulocetus considers the sea

Someday it will be ours,
that wide expanse of empty sea,
and we will be gods
in its secret abyss;
unfettered by gravity,
we will grow immense
and fill the oceans
with our rumbling calls.

I can feel my legs
in the deep dark dissolve,
swept away by waves
as my tail becomes
a mighty fluke
to drive me to new depths,
new heights,
a propulsion impossible
on this awkward airy land.

We will nudge our young
deeper into these lagoons,
chase them far from land
and make them swim,
demand that they conquer
for us
deep kingdoms.

Inspired by an “In Our Times” broadcast about the evolution of whales; ambulocetus, “the walking whale,” lived on the shores of the Tethys Sea 50 million years ago.