• A whispered breath and cool night air
    All blows through long night hair
    Eyes shine and dazzle and gleam
    Ocean orbs in a dream
    The color of the moon on smooth silk
    Soft and sweet like cream or milk
    Small and thin, full and strong
    Not caring what is right or wrong
    A desert storm at the ocean side
    Following as white sails guide
    Twist and turn and jump and spin
    Long and almost see-through thin
    An under-water-mermaid song
    Dancing like a graceful fawn
    Bells do chime and others ring
    Loud and sweet and joyful things
    Watery hands clutch and crash
    Light night twirls away from the lash
    Pale bells follow and but quickly fall back
    As begging and tearful hands try to slap
    The winds roar and scream, displeased
    That this maid be free, untamed, unseized
    It swirls and it tears and it pulls at her hair
    It makes rose cheeks all the more fair
    But finally it pulls and it tugs hard enough
    And she falls on the floor that is course and rough
    Another hand crashes, another breeze screams
    It tears once again and pulls a sash from its seams
    The ghostly cloth flutters into hands that clasp
    And the wind begins to chuckle and laugh
    The night haired maiden laughs with it too
    Not knowing what the elements wish to do
    She dances and twirls into a caressing touch
    But as she moves closer it becomes a clutch
    The mermaid screams and tears and begs to be free
    But the wind and the water will not let her be
    They fill her mouth and lay her down
    She shrills, but there comes no sound
    The water takes all that he can
    Then gently lays her in the sand
    Her silk, so whiter holds soft and still
    In a pale made only for an earthen till
    The warmth has gone and the bright is black
    The song is gone, never to come back
    Screaming rape by the sea
    Taking life, untamed and free