The Ship of Ahab

Pradyoth V, 12th - Phoenix, AZ
​The old Nantucket whaling ship
Now rests beneath the sea,
Her savage bow encrusted now
With barnacles and weeds.

In life she pierced the very skies--
How proud she must have been!
She strode the waves in search of prey--
Mighty Leviathan!

How senseless was her lunacy,
Her grand, deluded goal.
The pasteboard veils of men and whales
Remain unpierceable.