A Mermaid’s Tears

Many years ago
In my younger days
Id venture where the water ends
To feel the suns warm rays

And on one of those days, a magical day
Where the water meets the air
My world was forever changed
When I saw him standing there

Our eyes met, our bodies froze
Neither knew what to say
Two people from totally different worlds
Became one on that magical day


He would often come to see me
And I would swim up to the sand
We’d laugh, we’d love ..then he would leave
And return back to his land


He asked me many times
To leave my ocean home
To give up my tail to be with him
And never be alone


But I was young and very scared
To venture to a new land
And told him that I could not leave
My home beyond the sand

And soon his trips to see me
Became fewer than before
Till the day came that I had feared
And he came no more

So alone I swim the ocean
Many years ive had to guess
And wonder what my life would be
If I had just said ..yes..

And I have shed many a tear
Hoping he’d come back to me
And ask for my hand once again
And together we would be

Some day I know he will return
To where the land meets the sea
So there I ‘ve left a gift for him
That he will know is from me…

The many tears that I shed
with all the years that pass
I gently lay upon the shores
as Tiny sparkling glass…

~tamara