Poetry Friday - We seem ungainly, yes

We seem ungainly, yes; but whales embrace,and in their element where side by sidethey court with tenderness and weightless grace,they wear their massive bulks with joy and pride.Cast out on land, love falls from grace: there meatcouples with gasping meat, monstrosityconjoins with gross monstrosity, and heatshrivels the heart with thirst for ecstasy.But in the water love is cool as shade,and