She's Always Drawing Mermaids

She’s always drawing mermaids, and they bear resemblance to their artist, for each one is but a girl. Dark, wavy, thick, long hair hides pre-pubescent breasts; Elysian the islands drawn for all her mermaids seem . . . so different from her own reality. The islands that she colors are her dream. She also yearns to swim the wondrous sea. She’d have a mermaid’s iridescent tail . . . No place between two legs to cause her shame! She’d be a strong free mermaid, but she’s frail, and so she sketches dreams she cannot claim. Her mother sees each picture that she’s drawn, yet fails to see her daughter's joy is gone. For William Kekaula's Sonnet's Salutation Poetry Contest From 2011, this is one of my sonnets with the deepest metaphorical meaning