The Mermaid

While sailing out on morning’s tide A mermaid on a rock I spied She was a lovely half-fish girl With a necklace made of whitest pearl She smiled and blew a kiss to me Then disappeared into the sea She surfaced back behind the boat And lazily began to float I grabbed my friend and pointed aft He thought that I was truly daft For mermaids don’t exist, you know My friend quite plainly told me so No sooner had he walked away The mermaid came again to play She sunned herself upon some rocks And combed her flowing silken locks I hailed the Captain of our ship But she had given me the slip The Captain answered to my call But saw no mermaid there at all The Captain thought me quite insane As my wondrous tale I did explain When he returned back to his duty I saw again my ocean beauty She floated there upon a wave A subtle wink she slyly gave And then she flipped her lovely tail Swimming along as we did sail I called all of my sailor friends To show them her curvaceous fins They asked if I was feeling well When my story I began to tell I pointed to the mermaid fair But when they looked, nothing was there They thought that I had lost my mind No mermaid out there could they find They left and shook their weary heads And sleepily went to their beds My head was in a dizzy whirl I saw the ocean waters swirl Then once again she came in sight Swimming in the pale moonlight I yelled and danced a frantic jig As they hauled me off into the brig “He’s lost it” I did hear them say As they sadly went upon their way Through the port of my little cell I watched the sea waves rise and swell Then suddenly next to the glass I saw the little seaward lass She took the pearls off of her neck And tossed them up onto the deck Then off she swam into the deep As I wearily slipped off to sleep When came the early light of dawn I stretched my arms and gave a yawn Then my good friend upon the ship Ran down with pearls fast in his grip "You won’t believe the sight I saw" He said to me, face filled with awe Last night while I was by the rail I heard a voice give me a hail Next thing I knew, here came these pearls From underneath the ocean swirls "Quite right you were", he said to me "A mermaid threw these from the sea" I winked and said “I don’t think so” For mermaids don’t exist you know