Mermaids Song
I have seen where mermaids live
Where dolphins play, and the winds rest
And porpoises with their laughing faces
Mock my slow and clumsy boat
Are they an honor guard:
A troop of clowns?
Do they smile in sympathy
Pity me my awkward legs,
And leaping, dart away
I remember when my sea was bright
With sun-flung jewels
On a thousand days
And silver laced or velvet black those nights
The moon was magic unexplored:
The stars unnamed by me
Magic sentinels to dreams
And nightwatch company
Where dolphins play, and the winds rest
And porpoises with their laughing faces
Mock my slow and clumsy boat
Are they an honor guard:
A troop of clowns?
Do they smile in sympathy
Pity me my awkward legs,
And leaping, dart away
I remember when my sea was bright
With sun-flung jewels
On a thousand days
And silver laced or velvet black those nights
The moon was magic unexplored:
The stars unnamed by me
Magic sentinels to dreams
And nightwatch company
When I go back, if there should be
Someone lonely, missing me
Don't search along some fog-cold shore
But in a warmer sea
In crashing waves, and wind-tossed foam
And clear blue water, and siren song
Someone lonely, missing me
Don't search along some fog-cold shore
But in a warmer sea
In crashing waves, and wind-tossed foam
And clear blue water, and siren song
And if you call, perhaps I'll hear
But never an answer give--
For they do have rules, of a sort,
In that sunny place
Where mermaids live.
But never an answer give--
For they do have rules, of a sort,
In that sunny place
Where mermaids live.
Nicky Federico Copyright 2/1/2001
Art Silvia Pavlova
Art Silvia Pavlova
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