The Mermaid Lover

The following is a poem I had written about the ghost of a man who fell in love with a mermaid and, since he could not live underneath the water with her nor could she live on the land with him, he decided he would rather drown than live without her. So every year on the night in which he died, he comes back to see her once again, if only for a night ...

The Mermaid Lover

The moonlight strikes her long blonde hair

She calls to him, "Tis my love there"?

On shore she sits upon a rock

And waits for him to sail the loch

He travels so far for her sweet touch ~

His mermaid yearns for him so much

Crooning for him her ballad of love

And guides his way like stars above

"I'd drown for you, my love, he said

to spend enternity in your sea bed,

For death is sweet forever with thee ~

Our love transcends the land and sea"

She knows come morn as day draws near

Her star-crosseed lover must disappear

Leaving her behind hence another year

To pine for his love, so true and so dear

~ Lady Caer Morganna

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