The Little Mermaid Cries

THE LITTLE MERMAID CRIES

 

The little mermaid sighs

The little mermaid cries

Huge pearly tear drops

Welling in her starry green eyes

Rubbed away with hankies

As big as sailing boats

Or open blue skies

Eyes swelling up like soft sponges with salty water

By rising and ebbing tides

Voice breaking like silver waves clashing in ripples along the shore

She cried!

 

Is it because she lost her mellifluous voice

Is it for she had no choice

For she could not sing

Her ageless lullabies

For her two tails turned legs

All for the handsome Prince she wept

 

Or is it because she lost her rings

Or golden moons on silver scales of her tails

Or because sting ray stings

Cold that snaps driftwood sails

Winter that froze ice to sleet

Showering icicles, snowflakes and hailstones

To chill the bone in her spine

And snap her heart with a snap of fingers

Or because Fishermen boats seemed so very distant

And fishes of sea turned to ice statue figurines

Because shimmers soon fade away

Upon coral reef mirrors so fragile and frail

Or lullabies so sad

Oil spills very bad

Waste and pollution that bounce back

Nets that entangle fish tails

Or salt that distorts her vision

By her fishy tears

For she couldn't see the Prince marry her ally

The earthy girl

 

Is it for blue whale was caught

Or battles of sea she never fought

Or lessons she was taught

To never trust humans

Or because she spied

Such a lovely big ship go by

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