Mermaid

She used to lull me so softly each night into sleep,
the crashing and cawing of life at the beach.
Her sand filled with miniature wonders to reach
overflowing my treasure box, I was simple... at peace.

As my hair grew out longer, those tangles echoed my brain.
No longer the young laughing mermaid, I was shamed
by wild lusty urges so dark, twisted, kinky and deep
like the seawater's home to kraken and monsters without feet!

Medusa emerges, vicious strikes from my own head
as I tremble with unspoken desires... paired with dread.
Will her deep swirling ocean of strange life eat me whole
or will this sailor prevail? Toward the lighthouse we row!