We Are Merfolk

 

We Are Merfolk

 

As children we seem to skim across the surfaces

Of our days’ tranquil lakes

 

Like the basilisk running on hind legs

Out-pacing our (lesser than Jesus) predators

 

Possibly drowning them in the wake

Of that chase, as we begin learning to shield ourselves

 

By striking first, so as not to feel

that blow of life’s cruel anger, time's exhaust

 

We know how to wade the weeping

Wreckages if our mistakes & missed opportunities;

 

Mistook with misunderstanding’s book:

"An Idiot’s Guide to the Malady of Mishaps & Moroseness."

 

As adults we grow the necessary gills

To breathe our own tears, folkloric oceans seeming

 

Vast as Mithra’s museums of mummified cries,

Drowned moments we silenced in deep blues.

 

We are Merfolk,

Watching our ebbing tides

 

How once we had legs like ballerinas, swift & light

Like our worries to aging blight

 

 

A timely introduction to triton nights….

Now deeply anticipating the arrival of hindsight’s

 

Fight to catch the rye and nimble child

Above us now, while we watch them --

 

Kites of memories in our far away / freedoms,

On the surface of our wars' tears

 

Losing our flight…

From youthful wings to fins, and wordless sting

 

Learning to sink, swim, and breathe

Again-- Life : our unheard Ariel under the sea…

 

We are Merfolk of dreams in oceanic kisses

Voiceless we will lack the magic to raise our wishes

 

We learn to sing in seaweed with

Music of happenstance and waves of need

 

We are similar to these depths

Inequalities and struggles all abyssal deep.

 

Together as Merfolk must quiet that  loud sea…

Loss & histories of mountains / memory

Nautiluses drowning in love’s diminishing poetry,

We are merfolk, submariners of mysteries...

Reviews

[Frieda P]

Yet we enjoy the realm of Merfolk so much.....love that last line.....and the dreams in oceanic kisses, it's all whimsical and charming albeit a bittersweet nugget.

[Butch Decatoria]

thank you for your review, nice to see you again...

[Frieda P]

Was my pleasure PF....I'll try to stop by more often...where's the coffee? :)

[Butch Decatoria]

just finished a cup, lol... good morning...