mermaids

 
myths and realities blend into my thoughts
I personify everything
they become real in my mind

having personalities and favorite things they speak
I hear them discussing what they like and don't like
for instance Father Time, a Viking of some renown
he will regale you with a tale of mermaids or sirens being spotted

the other Vikings will tease him and tell him okay Grandfather
no one has ever spotted your sea cow
secretly he has a shapeshifting mermaid lover on the darker side of heaven

one he keeps away from Grandmother Time
he loves his Titchaba whose culture is Creole she knows great voodoo
and Grandfather knows a great amount of pagan magic being a warlock

he tries to confound me he says he went down with the mighty ships
and was swallowed by the mighty abyss
but as it turned out he was in the City of Atlantis gambling

he tries to trick me with old English speak when he is up with the times
I thought they sent me here alone but Grandfather was with me
all my near fatal episodes were kept from occurring because he saved me

I was to inherit a kingdom and a throne but I abdicated
Titchaba is much more level-headed and it would bring Grandfather
happiness to have her sitting beside him

anyways it is my desire to go space pirating with the men
investigating the other peoples and planets out there
I think I would be better as an ambassador of greeting