RESCUE ON CAPE COD

Whether turtles
stranded on the beach
up from islands
within our reach
lost in the cold waves
or a humpbacked whale
there is no furlough
on Cape Cod
now back from the gazebo
as we sail on a boat
or kayak
to a rescue
as we leave the dunes
to care for
injuries animals
or floating mammals
with our first aid kits
and tourniquets
in our fingers and bones
as a God squad
shapes us
by a chorus of birds
stirring us with energy
under a jagged sun
to free mammals,animals
and humpback whales
as our goal
by creatures without hope
held by human string
and enfolded rope
with new photos
spotted and featured in sight
we save our own souls
as nature would direct
creatures  to rise alive
upon or beneath the sea
as it were our lives instead
in our  own paradise to atone
for  years of human
cruelty and neglect
with a new liberty
as understood
and to select those barely alive
in their under water lungs
from our neighborhood
now with hope
to survive and thrive
who would be hung
by string or rope.