In time we may come to see how we can live without whales, their suffering fate long extinguished, their spiritual light to be gone and shine no more. Do we think our children will ever thank us for our lack of courage, when we say we care yet, turn our backs pretending not to notice, when they need us to truly understand them?

There is time to stop nations from hunting and killing these and dolphins, principal intelligent creatures of our earth, who remain as the legacy we leave to those of us yet unborn, unseen and silent. Do we keep these beings silent from their minds too?

A significant testimony for our ability to live in harmony with our planet leaves more than a bitter taste; to watch impassively as these innocents are slaughtered and eaten for political purpose or maybe simply stored as there exists no longer a calling for whale meat.

It remains our duty of care to understand that without whales and dolphins to beautify our lives, our being here means absolutely nothing. It is allowing unseen people to take life for profit without care nor concern but simple greed. We don't really have the need of them for food: the price to sate this appetite for blood because of tradition is a lame excuse. People cry in their sleep from poverty of material gain and others cry for lack of purity and beauty in life.

People who claim spiritual empathy and then profit from such taste and greed just because they can, is not in the realm of dignity nor understanding but for selfishness and cruelty of the most barbaric nature. If we as a society claim to be civilized, then what does this behavior tell us of ourselves if we fail to stop it? Perhaps if we cannot regain oursleves then we should be extinguished too, in the same careless way we seek for others.

Time will complete the picture we paint - and all too often, we allow others to choose the colors to use; restricting, selfish and without the real song of the heart.