by Jodi Wright

Created on: April 25, 2008

My Mermaid Child

When you were born I fell in love.
Your pink shell nails, your white shell ears,
my mermaid child,
born water-bound, your destiny
to toss in foam, to fight the tides.
Undulate, slide through the surging swells,
defiant dive, but then emerge,
ecstatic conqueror.

When you were born you fell in love.
With rippling drops from your extended hand,
bold puddles called your toes to splash and sing,
with beach sand traces in your hair, asleep,
you in your element, and I a bubble trapped in air,
unfit to swim along
a sprite intent on plunging her way home.

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