MERMAID IN A BOX

This piece is actually autobiographical, putting a humorous light upon the fact that a specially chosen souvenir was badly used, as was I.

 

 

There was a little mermaid gal

How beautiful was she!

Golden hair flowed down her back

With sparkles from the sea.

 

She came to him from far away,

From ocean’s sandy shore.

He, perplexed, delighted was

And, dazzled, loved her more.

 

For many years his dreams were filled

With miracles as this

An angel come for him alone

That he might squeeze and kiss.

 

He thanked his lucky stars that sped

A siren all this way

To pull him from his doldrums

And mark a brand new day.

 

His pain and grief and blindness, too,

Were disappearing fast.

The mermaid gave her heart, as well,

“Real love, a man, at last!”

 

She knew that he adored her so

Now, life redeemed from on-the-rocks

He’d be so proud, the world to show!

But, no, he put her in a box.  

 

So small, so dark, so tucked away

“What the hell?” she sadly thought.

But when he, often, took her out,

By loving words she was caught

 

Into the lie that says the more

Trapped and squeezed a lady is

That being bound is meant to mean:

How treasured and essential ‘tis.

 

‘Til sounds of other visitors

Came to her ears each day

The bedsprings squeaked and women laughed

The mermaid fumed, “What can I say?!

 

And so she asked him outright, once,

“If I am coveted and loved,

Essential to your life,

Why is it I am locked up here

And not your shown-off wife?”

 

He hung his head (embarrassed boy)

“It’s just because, you see,

You’re too sexy for display

By a Baptist, farmer guy like me.”

 

“Oh,” she said, “now it all makes sense;

I came from far away

That you might have the Greatest Gift

And still roll in the hay.”

Reviews

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This is wonderful, kind of cute too, Enjoyable read.

[anne p. murray- LadeeAn..]

Oh what a magical, musical, wonderful poem. I felt such delight while reading this magnificent write. You wrote it so well, the fluidity of rhyme and vision is truly one of a kind. If I could rate it higher than 100, I would do so