Hi everyone, I hope you’re well! I’m sharing a poem today. I hope you like it!
Melancholy Mermaid
Watching and waiting just on the shore
Not sure yet who she should be
She swishes glumly in the surf
As she dreams of climbing trees
She watches the dolphins all twirling
Feeling such jealousy for their glee
What she wouldn’t give just to sample
Only a droplet of their esprit
She’s trapped by what’s expected of her
And she lives fully in ennui
Limited to the watery deep
When there’s so much world to see
Her peers seem to be most contented
To follow the rules dutifully
But something keeps pulling her shoreward
And she basks up there regularly
She thinks of leaving for somewhere else
But would she ever be free?
Or would her restless, churning mind
Keep her washed up in life’s debris?
She would like to lead another life
And to redevelop her ki
She’s tired of living her day to day
And of herself to some degree
So there she sits, in the golden sun
For perhaps an hour or three
Dreaming daily of her escape
And of a life beyond the sea
As always thanks for reading, I really do appreciate it!
Until next time,
George
© 2022 GLT
Categories: Creative Writing, Poetry
GEORGE L THOMAS 
The mer people she lives with… are toeing the line? Towing maybe, but toeing? I couldn’t keep reading after that point. Itried, but that line makes no sense at all and I cannot ignore it.
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Toe the line” is an idiomatic expression meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand in formation along a line. Other phrases which were once used in the early 1800s and have the same meaning were “toe the mark” and “toe the plank”. From Wikipedia. Thanks though! ☺️
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