She sat on the rocks,
All black hair, mascara,
Pale skin, black lips,
Mermaid’s tail.

I called upon her,
My wish to woo her
From her deep watery shell
To share my land locked hell.

“Oh dark princess,
Look upon me with your dark eyes.
Bless this poor man,
With your gaze so dark,
Your lips black like my heart.
Share my world, 
Eat my soul.”

She looked upon me with disdain,
“You call me dark 
But know no light
Coming here alone in the day.
Follow the moon,
Howl at me 
In the night,
As the sharks do 
With their prey.”

I rowed away
Dejected and scorned.
My love, loves me not
I am yet a fool.
Yet, fool I be,
Did she not tell me true?
To return in the moon’s light?
Prey I shall become,
By bringing her some
Shark’s tooth and bite.

I rowed back through the sea,
The moon, my shining light.
I looked for my mermaid love upon the rocks
Called out with my chest,
“Come my love
See what I have wrought.
This gift I have brought.
A shark’s prey indeed!”

Out of the spray
And ocean’s depth
Rose my love majestic.
“Why do you call me
Landlocked man?
What can you offer me
From your hand?”

“A gift so dark,
So grim, so goth,
Your love you will give
And never give another.
Gaze upon this my sweet,
The head of my enemy.”

Her eyes stayed dark,
Her lips stayed straight,
The paleness of her skin did not change.
Then she launched from her perch
To my boat,
To me,
Her body took mine overboard 
Into the sea.

She took me down.
Water covered me,
Dark, black,
Sea green with a bit of brown.
Her lips cover mine and air rushed into my lungs,
My blood became intoxicated.
I stick my tongue in her mouth.
My love and me.

She reached for me
My rod between my legs
Stroking to iron hardness
“Now you will do something useful
Fill me, feed me, give me your seed.”
Her lips again find mine.
My hardness finds itself inside.

How does one fuck under the sea?
A question to which I had no answer.
Lucky for me, it was knowledge not needed.
She moved with me,
Her body bobbing,
Like a porpoise 
With a purpose
To bring forth my semen.

Her lips never left mine,
As her body I did find,
My hands exploring her underwater treasures.
Our bodies move,
Bob and float,
Feelings I’ve never known
Become common,


I am lost in her,
Lost in the sea,
Completely I give over myself
She in me.
I release.

She drags me down further,
No longer do I see the moon.
I fear for nothing in her embrace.
Her being is my air,
I want to tell her I love her.
I look into her eyes,
Outlined in black,
The colors of the sea swirl in her pupils.

She looks at me.
I feel love,
She moves her mouth,
Her head from mine.
My air!
My breath!
My love!
I want to scream.
Her body moves from me.

I hear her voice like a dolphin’s song 
“You’re a dick, you know that?
I never asked for your desire,
Nor you to waste my time.
You bring to me not what I request,
Or even a thought for me.
All your calls and cries have been
Echoes of selfish desire
And childish pine.
You get what you deserve.
As for me, I’ve taken what I wanted-
The seed of a land walker to mix 
With my underwater deity
To raise that which will conquer.”

She gave me the finger
And swam away.
The pale shimmer of her face
The last image of this world I saw
I watched as she fades away
The sway of her tail, my eulogy. 



We found Shane’s boat in the morning.  His body washed ashore that afternoon.  We can only wonder what happened.  Most assume he fell overboard and drowned trying to escape after killing Sean O’Lark.  A few say he went overboard willingly.  A scant few say he was lured by the mermaid to his death in the deep.  Few of us really care though.  Shane was always a bit of a dick.