• My Mermaid
    My foot on the pedal and the protests of the engine,
    It was telling me to slow down,
    Those protests and screams of its mechanical works were not heard,
    As my thoughts and horrors of not winning first were much louder,
    I should have listened,
    Because I took a turn to sharp,
    And the car spun off the road and into the muddy creek.

    I crawled out of the wreckage,
    feeling more fine than I did when I spun in,
    I was surprised to see a body still inside,
    Since I was alone when I drove.
    Then the horror came,
    When I realized,
    It was a bloodied, burning body.

    I was sitting in the water when the medics came,
    I tried to tell them I was fine,
    Nobody noticed me, even as I touched their shoulders,
    I yelled, screamed, shouted, and tried to push,
    But it was all to no use.
    I heard one say I was in a coma,
    And I realized I was a ghost of myself,

    I never moved from my spot,
    Even as the clean-up crew worked,
    After the crew was gone I cursed them,
    cursed them for feeling nothing for me.

    After the moments of silence,
    I heard singing in the woods,
    And I followed the small shallow creek to its source.
    The clear creek became a large pond,
    About four feet deep with a small island popping up in the middle,
    And amongst this island was a beautiful young woman.

    I ask her of her age, expecting no response,
    But she turned to me and told me it was of no concern to me,
    Surprised as I was I managed an apology,
    And I left...

    But I really didn't leave,
    I watched her instead,
    I watched her sing to the sky with her perfect red lips,
    I watched as she pulled her hand through her shiny blonde hair,
    I watched...and days passed...I watched.
    Until her blue, sapphire eyes locked onto mine,
    And her smile surprising me as much as the response.

    Come here she said,
    I could not disobey,
    Why do you watch she asks,
    That is of no concern to you I tell her,
    And her laughter at that, melted my heart.

    For days, I return to the pond and island,
    Just to speak with her,
    One day she asks what’s wrong since I wasn't speaking,
    I miss my fiancee I tell her, staring at her silky legs,
    I think I'm in love with you, but I love my fiancee I tell her.

    She looks at me with a lethal smile and tells me to see who I
    really love.
    She leans into me and kisses me,
    I do not close my eyes and kiss back,
    Instead I look to the side and wonder if I should feel guilty.

    Then, the woman's face becomes clear like water,
    And then her whole body became an outline in the water,
    She was water, but her body was still there,
    Just water, not skin.
    I saw her legs change figure when they became water,
    And in her legs place were what looked like to be the tail of a
    dolphin,
    She was the same though, at the same time,
    Her eyes were still blue sapphires, even if they were colorless
    orbs in a liquid face,
    Her hair still blonde, even if it was crystal clear like the pond,

    "One more kiss," she says "and then if you still love your fiancee
    more than me, stay amongst the living, If not, then return here,
    and you can be with me."

    I was then jerked into darkness and then back out again,
    I stared at the men dressed in white,
    After a while I had figured out I was lying on a bed in the hospital,
    The men were doctors and had just saved me from flat-lining.
    After the doctors called my fiancee to let her know I was out of
    the coma,
    I waited patiently with excitement,
    When I saw her, I almost cried,
    But then I noticed the ring on her finger,
    It wasn't mine...

    My fiancee had brought hurtful words, no kiss,
    She had brought a serious face, no smile,
    She had only wanted money, not love,
    And at that moment I realized she had never loved me anyway.

    For the next two nights,
    I thought,
    And finally climbed out the hospital window.

    That night I roamed the streets still in my hospital gown,
    I looked and searched for the creek until I found it,
    I stood by it and heard no singing,
    Nothing to grab my attention and pull me in,
    I had to do it myself this time.

    I followed the creek and after a few hours, found the pond,
    It was hard to see in the darkness,
    And as I cried on the island of the pond,
    I wished for a light to see by,
    And I got one...

    On the opposite side of the pond,
    There was what looked to be like a star underneath the ripples,
    I stood and followed it, still crying,
    I followed the light down a creek I've never seen before,
    And as I followed the day was getting brighter until it reached daylight,
    At last the creek ended and the light disappeared,
    I fell to my knees before a dark hole no bigger than a manhole,
    I felt despair at not finding my real love,
    But that ended as soon as a hand made of water reached out of
    the hole and wiped the tears from my eyes,
    Then came up the rest of my true love,
    Her sapphire yet colorless eyes locked into mine.

    "Do you love me back?" I asked, crying,
    "Of course I do. Are you ready?" she asked,
    Yes I said through my tears, now tears of happiness,
    She then took my hands and pulled me under the surface of the
    crystal clear water,
    Head first into the dark hole.
    The water choked and suffocated me, but it was okay,
    I knew as soon as the darkness came when I drowned,
    We would find the light again,
    With...
    ...My Mermaid.