I've been waiting for the words to describe this moment, this feeling, this connection.
each time I look at the photo and wait for ehe words to come, my chest swells with a full heart and quiet breath.
this moment was a feeling -- a full-bodied, soul-opening feeling...
as brief as a raindrop landing on your lip, as full as a flood carrying you out to sea.
I'd felt it before when I held a newborn baby, who locked eyes with me before falling asleep in my arms...
how there was something knowing, clever, curious, and vulnerable behind her eyes... how I yearned to care for and connect with these soul...
how they felt like a beautiful song, all melody, no words...
the only difference was... this moment with with baby whale was without touch, with a soul whose body could never be carried in my arms...
I wonder if I'll see her again, if we will come together in the symphony of the ocean, like two notes destined to be played together by some divine composer...
I wonder, and I hope.