Whale Sharks Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Whale sharks

New to wavy waves,
Was on the trawler.

Vessels were Soviets,
Grizzly, strange,
People and the space.

For washing, cleaning,
Immersed in seawater.

Till that day…

On the deck, I observed,
Many sharks, scattered,
They circled and circled!

I was shocked and scared!

Andrei, my Russian partner,
Knew and was aware:
'Focus deep, at the bottom.'

I saw the same circles,
And shadow, lines, spots,
Looked at him, eye to eye.

'The spots are of shark,
This shark is very large,
Cleaners go around…'
He told me and smiled.

As a fool, I was marked:
'So, feeder is the shark,
And afraid I am of
Gang members, Mafia! '

Whale shark is the States,
Camouflaged under both,
The VETO, and the UN,
In Ukraine's bloodshed,
And Gaza's mass murder!