An Island Submerged lyrics

Beneath the rippling waves

There lies an island submerged

One of wonder, and majestic

It sails slowly beneath the sea

Going about so gregariously

A presentation apprehensive

To those estranged by size

Silently stalking, filter feeding

They must float freely about

Untethered by captive netting

Harbored in its shoals, sailors

Abiding by its drifting currents

An island of remora and a host

Feasting upon life forces near

Amid an open sea featureless

Full of plankton, soup of the sea

Marokintana, with so many stars

They shine over three ridges

With a grey terrain, girth pale

Aged, whiskered, and toothed

They gather in May, procreating

Mysterious, massive, and docile

Entering a trance when grazed

By divers beneath an open mouth

Its column like the rings of trees

Speak of its age at journey's end

A trek often left unwitnessed

In the wanderings of a whale shark