The Merman's Courtship
Stand with one foot in the sea
Wait at the fringe of the waters
Where waves wash the shore endlessly
Scents of the spindrift blow into your dreams
As you stand with a foot in the ocean
Forget all your future and banish the past
In the dance with perpetual motion.
Live in this moment and wait for me here
As the brine comes to take you away
And the tides of the moon will be part of you soon
Let it be and cry never to stay.
Come to the edge of the ocean
Stand with one foot in the sea
Step even closer and reach for my hands
To share in immortality.
Turning your face to the waters
Come love me in sea spray tonight
Kiss me in sweet-swelling shadows
And welcome the tides in their might
Say your farewells to the dayworld
Cast aside skin of humanity
Embraced in the realm of the waters-
Soon you’ll be soulless as me.
The Merman's Courtship
