i would sing you a song
the texture of aqua
the fierceness of barnacle
a song to hold you
hold you
sing with a mother’s voice, hair flowing
on those wrinkled nights
i would sing you a song to loose your frustration
to draw your hair from your face while you retch
you retch
the rusted anchor from your belly
drown out the volume of your despair
despair
sing you a song to billow your imagination
imagination
a song to float you beyond your waterlogged oars of no way out
no out
the song would be a flood to swallow away
how your roots never really took
roots never took
how you never quite planted, what with the sandy bottom always moving
never planted
water down how you no longer care
about taking a bat to the tv
we no longer talk, never did
hiding your claws like relief inside your shell
while he is lost in his bottle out to sea
the message inside is faded but
this song would hold you like a Mother
like a Mother
it would rock you and strum your spine
with day glow fingers
dream you into being
to being
reattach your umbilical to the flow
a siren song to make you forget everything you are not
you are not
this song would be louder than everything else and all you could think about is this song
you would bleed this song
it would breathe you
and nothing would concern you
but your yearning
to get back
to this song.
Mermaid, by Katrina Sesum, was in part inspired by the song “Pandora’s Aquarium” by Tori Amos. Click here to listen.
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July 6, 2015 at 9:14 am
Thomas Burks
I’ve been reading this over and over again. I need to absorb it all. Beautiful Maureeny.
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