Mermaid Baby

For Linette

Baby mermaid,

ocean child;

born of water and pure love.

Golden curls cluster

'round angel sweet face.

Eyes that change

with ocean's whim;

green to blue to storm dark grey.

Impish smile on rosebud lips,

searose cheeks

just lit with joy.

 

The sea is your freedom,

mermaid child,

a place without the limitations

that bind you on the land.

 

Now you dwell

in the Forever Sea

in the world beyond

the end of time.

Evermore

you are free

of the constraints of land,

sweet, smilimg mermaid girl.

Author's Note

Linette was born with spinal bifida and was in a wheelchair and in pain all of her brief life, except in the water.

Reviews

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Ultimately innocent and beautiful. Renfieldians unite.