Rusalka

She flickers in the borderland
 In the mirror and the marsh
 Sparkling like the morning dew
 On a grateful corpse

 In the bog her murmuring
 The echo of a cry
 Travels on the plaintive wind
 Like a phantom sigh

 The merest of a semblance
 Shadowed by the moon
 In the murk appears to flirt
 Behind the sinking dunes

 Like an orphan of the sea
 Or a widow of the sands
 She shrivels in the noon day sun
 Glimmering in strands

 Written by © Raven Drake
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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