Completed poem

Down through the waves
Wiggle through the bubblesThere's a place between the coralsWhere you forget your troubles

Starfish lye in deep contentThe clams are happy tooThey cover up the modestyOf creatures; Green an Blue

Their long and flowing locksDance behind their headAs they swim and play in currentsOr go to work instead

Lavish buildings tower aboveWeaved in grass and weedThe mercity of Pavlovia (name subject to change)Is the place to go and succeed

Home to many merman and maidLiving peacefully in contentBut there is one that regards the peaceAs something he does resent

Day in, day out he lives his lifeAnd feels it is a boreNightly he travels outside of the citySearching for something more

It's upon one of these nights that our story beginsHe sees a beauty that lacks any finsHe's amazed and aghast, He stares at her in aweHe wishes he could stay and admire her more

At work in the 'morrow he rushes inTo excitedly tell his taleBut is met with mockery and disbeliefThey think he's gone off the rail

He returns home in the blackest of moodsHe felt the fool of the cityBut he knew if he saw her but once againHe wouldn't feel so shitty 

He returned to the spot where he first saw herAlmost every single nightHe cherished the moments she returnedIt kept his love alight


But as Summer faded into Autumn glow
he saw her less and less
Then Autumn fades to Winter snow
and caused him great distress

No more did she swim above him
She left him lone and deserted 
he felt depressed for months
people talked, faces averted

He kept himself to himself
Resigned to isolation
obsessed over what he knew 
In his self incarceration

Summer sun rose again 
The merman looked outside
It reminded him of when last he saw her
He grinned from side to side

That night he greeted every neighbour
As he swam along the street
It'd been months since they'd seen him
and he'd never looked so neat

Butterflys in his stomach
He waited in 'their' spot
Hours spent in baited breath,
Would she come or not?

Hours passed by, his smile had faded
His hopes began to drop
But a figure above him caught his eye
And caused hiss heart to stop

He puffed up his chest
He took a deep breath
He started to feel light headed
But he pushed his way through
His nerves and his fears 
And all the things he dreaded

At first she just stared at him
Shocked more than anything
As a marine biologist, she had seen many things
But this was something new
She was glued
To the hue
Of his sparkly blues

But for him, she was more beautiful
Than he could imagine
She studied him with such delight 
He was flattered by her passion

They promised to meet up the very next night
And for many nights thereafter
They shared long conversations late into the night
Barely controlling their laughter

At work people talked behind his back
About his dramatic change
His happy smile and jolly swim
Just made him seem quite strange

But his nightly trips were his fuel
To rocket through the day
'Til he could see her once again
And talk the night away

Weeks passed by, there grew a spark
He proposed the relationship he wished to embark
Young love flowed and they cherished each other
But they wished their meetings were less undercover

One day she arrived in a big machine
Carrying a see through box
There were ropes and hooks along the sides
Topped with an iron lock

A young Mermaid, who had snuck out of her room
To smoke the blue seaweed
Spotted the merman at the moment of capture
And raced to home at speed

And that was the last we ever saw him
Kidnapped by a beast
Locked under glass and metal
Likely prepared for a feast

And so young merman and maid
Beware the surface dwellers
They are brutal killers everyone
Every child, lady and fella

And thats why we live deep down in the blue
Steering clear of coastal lines
Avoiding the sight of the two tailed beast
And their awful kidnapping crimes

Little did the marking know
The merman lived a happy life
he had a tank in the living room
of the marine biologist; his wife

She had her bed onto of tank
With water level to the across
And he would sleep below her
On a luscious bed of moss

The tank was smaller than his ocean blue
And his tail began to wither
She begged and pleaded with him
'let me take you back'
But relief he would not give her

His life was shortened, that they knew
But they still had laughter and fun
And before his final days were up
She gave birth to their son

The human child, or so it seemed
The apple of his father's eye
He filled his life with happiness
Until the day he died

A lonely widow and her son
Stand upon a pier
Ashes fly along the wind
Carrying someone dear

The son dives in, teary eyed
Around him water crashes
But when he looks down to his legs
A Merman tail splashes

His father's spirit lived on in him
Let him dance between skin and scale
They lived on a boat all over the world
He swam and his mother would sail