Rock Mermaid

I wish to be darling to sing of love to woo you perhaps now I am This strangely artistic hint of a thing This will of the wisp of a thing This wind and bone marrow left over thing A piece of seaweed Dark green and thrown on the shore of this beautiful place I am made of seashell and sand If you magnify me you see that I am made of a thousand memorized crystals the detris of hot heat explosions different colors... different shapes I feel ethereal but only human and flawed all of it has left inclusions in my deep I did want to love I do want to be love But I think I've become too much like a thing from the sea tossed sanded changed Ground down like one of those round rocks on the beaches of Sandwich perfectly white or freckled granite...pink, grey, white and taupe perfectly smooth and perfectly impenetrable All the lustrous edges and dramatic planes Reduced A rock mermaid am I my siren song stilled Once enticing dangerous haunting Echoing off the reefs I now send lighthouse warnings Beware the Rocks!! But in truth I want nothing more than to be a safe shore to find refuge in the arms of a sea grass man and to bask in the warm sand of my very own forever man on our forever shore