MermaidWhen I dream I glide through warm crystal watersTumble in the currents Saunter through the anemones Bright, bold, and fascinating Friends with all the afectionate creatures of the sea Their daughter and princess When I awake my bed is cold The world is dark The sun has yet to rise The mermaid cowers inside Peering out only to gaze on the anemone flowers of this other world Bask in the sunshine glow Beam in bright-colored clothes My home is in water, still Who is real? Where is reality? A glistening world of fantastic creatures, Melodies that drift off a fresh-water spring Weightless, formless Free from the bonds and bounds of gravity Where love is the law of the land Or a domain that is dark half the day With beings that hate first And maybe learn later of love Harsh gazes have scared the mermaid It is why she dissolves in my blood And hides from your sight Will you ever find the mermaid? The shy, sparkling essence that exists inside me? Will you coax her out of her mundane shell? Or will she ever exist in the fairy-tale world Of magic bubbles And marbled colors... Enter |
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