Merman by Abhishek Raol

Photograph by Jason deCaires Taylor

Mermaids aren’t Disney dolls

Mermaids are way more interesting

Mermaids and Merman

are men the women lost in the sea

Persuaded by the beautiful blue waters

Where their souls will always swim

The sea consumes them

Eating them they becoming them

Wearing coral and fungi and flowers

Each merperson has their clothing

Each merperson watches

A different place of the sea

Forever staring they keep looking farther

Deeper into the blue

The currents always pass

The water always moves

The fishes always swim

The water around them is never the same

But the mermaid stand there, stoned forever

 In the changing sea

They connect holding hands

Alone only seeing their Letter of the compass

But together the whole ocean they encompass

With their stone eyes, they see the blue world

As the year pass and the coral grows

Still embraced in their stone community

In a world of waves

Like warriors of the water

Protectors of the sea