Come away from the land
Where fires of passion fanned
By an abstract breeze
Furiously scorch emerald sand
Come away from the clouds
Where the winds whip you to shrouds
Circling round and round
Repeating the same tales in crowds
Come and dive into me
My wells are clear, you see
Sink down into the deep
As you sink, surrender anew
Light dwindles to blue
Reflecting, a shipwreck or two
Holding treasure and a clue
As you sink, your breathing slows
And hums to some mystical chord
And here in the murky underworld
In the cold pressured silence
In the precious, distant dark
Dissolved in the absolute blue --
At last, you might know your Self...
About the Creator
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The Salt in her Voice
The myth says mermaids sing to lure sailors to their death. But why? The ocean is huge. Only 5 percent has been discovered by man. Why would a creature of the sea with that much space to roam ever care about the fate of men on ships? The answer, as it turns out, is not a simple one at all. The truth about the myth is older than the tides. Long ago before the first ship ever cut across the surface, the sea made a pact with the sky. The sky would take the souls of the drowned. Anyone who died in storms or any quiet accidents of the deep would have their soul lifted upward to the Heavens while the bodies would remain below, feeding the oceans endless hunger. The greedy sea however wanted more souls than the sky would claim. So it created mermaids. It gave them beautiful voices woven from currents and moonlight. It commanded them to sing. "Bring forth the ones who float where they should sink." it instructed them. So they did. They never killed out of malice but out of obligation. They sung to summon, not to seduce. A mermaid's voice could loosen the tether between the body and soul, making any man step willingly into the water. The sea would take the body and the sky would take the soul. Balance maintained.
By Sara Wilson7 days ago in Fiction
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