Loved by locals, worshipped by holidaymakers and long used as a muse for artists and writers, the beautiful coast of Cornwall never fails to enchant. The third in our Poetry Spotlight series with Bethan Laurels, this is 'You're Calling inspired by dolphin calls off the Cornish coast.

 

You're Calling

You're calling, calling

I can hear you calling

 

Your voices rise above the waves

They carry with the wind

 

You're calling, calling

I can hear you calling

 

No sound stops you breaking through

To reach the one you lost

 

You're calling, calling

I can hear you calling

 

To the release of their passing breath

After the last swell broke

 

You're calling, calling

I can hear you calling

 

Call, call

I can hear you call

As their soul lifts with the breeze

And shelters from the seas

 

Call, call

To the one you love

To the beauty of their eyes

In the star showered skies

 

Bethan says:

On a summers day at Gwithian, with a walk along the dunes and to Godrevy, I saw a dolphin that had passed away and lay upon the stones. This was heartbreaking and a feeling that became so much stronger when I looked out to sea and could see her family. As I lay in bed that night under a clear sky I could hear them call.