Sweet Surrender

Bye Turtle, I love you!

Lonesome George Is no longer
lonely...he's free.
He answers the call of the island,
one love, one life.
Freed from his native stronghold
a vestige that love does not
always sway nor conquer
he steps into the unknown,
Last of his kind, sweet surrender
but no longer alone.

I mourn his passing and

I hope it's love that he's feeling now.

Photo By Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/File

Author's Note

Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise, subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdoni. Lonesome George died at the age of 100 aproximately, making the Pinta Island Tortoise extict. (AFP Photo/Rodrigo Buendia)

Reviews

[An owl on the moon]

I saw this on a news feed, but you've given his passing a more deeply moving, emotionally stirring voice... How the movement of time takes us further down the stream... and how it takes away the precious music of the ages... Beautifully bittersweet....

[Stacey Watts]

Very well written. I have always had a special place in my heart for turtles. It is too bad this turtle is extinct. Very informative and wonderful.

[John Fitzgerald]

a sad yet beautiful symbol for the disappearing species.

not sure i have understood the Bob Marley references, but I'd like to think you are saying he was the last of his subspecies too!

wonderful anyway!