Mercurial Mermaids

Mercurial Mermaids

The moon has jumped over the valley
The saffron field lit up
White dreamy scar tissue on the rise
And never could tell  the truth from lies
Time froze its stopwatch
When I decided upon a dream
Till hell froze over my life would sail
Over fields of wheaten cream
Descendants in ascent
Shooters in the breeze
Falling asleep.

My old friend I saw your picture
overnight you became your
Mom
My dream was cupped in your flaming eyes
But your lips dont sip from dreamy founts no more

And I see you and turn away
I won't remind you of regrets
Regalia of Roses
You've chiseled
Your chosen life in stone
In mine water and air must wed

So stone wears coat of moisture
And the lifeless mermaid flips on  the baffling beach
Slowly dying shedding dessicated fins
Dissipate my dewy dreams
Still I am steamily alive
More alive in the steaming lies
In lines of charcoal tears from
Mascara eyes
More alive my dear in my
Tender death
Than you
Up on your crystal hearth..
Ideal structured saline salt
Frozen waterfront of fantasy. .

This will be present
Till the day I die
To pay my dues
And live myself
To my utmost core
Nothing left
to preserve in funeral urns
No yen for living left to burn
Ashes all cold and
Dead dreams along with
Death must die.

Blue black shards of soft
Rosy fins
Deep underwater silhouetted
Sea dreams
Seeing eyes of silky mermaid beings
Seething beyond
Superficial understanding
Silence of the silver deep...
There are currents
Beyond mercy's keep
And there we flow
Flowers under the
Ocean floor
Forevermore.

(c) Amrita Valan 2015