POEMS
Tears of a Mermaid
Glitter, so smooth and worn
on my palm
The tears of mermaids lay strewn
upon the sand
Cast up from within
Tears of life gone by
Pale green, blue, and once clear
They sing their songs
and weave their tunes
Oh tears of times long lost
The softness of fog's breath
The Castles of the crab
I walk the sands alone now
No more little shouts and screams
No more delights of sights unseen
by mere mortals
Magic unfolded before their eyes
Are all these bits of tears
but broken bottles
scoured from life's beers
Chunks of glass, flotsam of wine
no songs, no hair of sea creatures
no magical glitter of scaled beast
nothing but trash uopn my beach
Does magic end with childhood
Does it reoccur with birth anew
Does the sea cleanse the sand
and souls of time
Can I sit upon a rock
and see forever till the edge
Has my sight shortened
with my time
Do I miss the thrill
the very often beauty still
of tear from a mermaid below
Does trash and garbage fill my sight
A world gone ugly with all it's might
Teh breeze can still caress
my skin, my time, my endless day
I sit and wait
No more pirates, no more inner blaze
Tired, worn and dissolution
No more anything I am told
The tide goes in, the tide goes out
life moves by in orderly rhythmn
and washes back and froth a new array
Condomns, needles, and plastic
not of worthy retreive
not of value to me.