The Last Selkie of Salt Sea

Ecological fantasy, or reality?

 

“The Last Selkie of Salt Sea”

 

I am the last selkie

Who swims the salt sea

For the rest of my kindred

Have all vanished but me

 

Our songs used to carry

Between Greenland and Wales

And the shores of the New World

All were known to our tales

 

We would put on our seal’s skins

We would bask in the sun

We would dart through the cold north

We would sing and have fun

 

But then something happened

The world started to change

But then something happened

The world was no longer the same

 

The waters grew warmer

The ice started to melt

The base men who could not shift

Garbed themselves in our pelts

 

On the rocks and the sea spray

Do I sing my sad song

For I swam through the black tide

Now my time is not long

 

I am the last selkie

Who swims the salt sea

For the rest of my kindred

Have all vanished but me