Mating Scars (Isurus Metridium)

Giant Squid

A bloodied rostrum and missing fins, teeth marks raked from gill to grin. 
 From far away, it's easily seen, the ordeal through which I had been 

 Specific gravity, taken it's toll, fateful events left their holes 
 Teeth replaced from ones behind, nictating membranes hide swollen eyes 

 Uncanny, I sailed straight to thee, in tonic immobility 
 One drop in a million 

 Spiteful seas and sharper shores, I'd suffer all again 
 And navigate with magnetic pores, a thousand chance occurrences 
 Uncanny, I sailed straight to thee, in tonic immobility 
 One drop in a million 

 To migrate is to suffer 
 Like fleeting friends, thermoclines come and go 
 A family asunder, I cheers the deserters, 

 An unfathomable reward, now breaths and grows