Seas of Me

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I paddled away from the old worn dock

in my tiny little boat

I didn't bring any supplies thinking....

This is all she wrote

I set to sea to end it all

didn't bother to chart a course

I would let mother nature grant

my body and soul a divorce

I drifted for hours aimlessly

on a seemingly endless ride

Threw my paddle overboard

allowed my boat to follow the tide

I could feel the sun beating on my face

hear thunder in the air

still I lay back and closed my eyes

too distraught to care

Then suddenly I heard beside the boat

a mysterious splashing sound

I slowly sat up and looked over the side

I was amazed at what I found

Hanging on to my floating coffin

was a mermaid with long brown hair

She looked up at me with bright, liquid eyes

as I struggled to take in air

She took my hand and held it to her face

then looked me in the eye

she said "My friend, listen to me,

you do not have to die"

I said " I'm tired of all this pain.

There is no hope for me.

That's why I have come all this way,

to die here on the sea."

Then she pulled me overboard

so that we were face to face

she told me there was another way,

there was another place.

She said "Come with me beneath the waves

and I promise you will see

a wonderful world where creatures live

in peace and harmony."

"Come my friend and you will be

able to live in bliss and glee

beneath the waves you will swim free

deep inside the seas of me."

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