![mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone](https://www.boredart.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mermaid-art-19.jpg)
I sing of the joy of these angel-people, who walk and live forever. Beyond, a beach shimmers silver and lush treetops wave in zephyr breezes. The sky is dark, and the round orb they call Moon glows like … like me.
![mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1d/05/ce/1d05ce516b672c53f445e16679e68227.jpg)
Yet the night was made for the upper world, and I rise again. I hear sad songs in the spire and halls of my palace, lamenting my unfairness, and I determine to set all to rights on the morrow. I do not hear the pleadings of my courtiers for my attentions and the justice I dispense in my court is hasty and arbitrary. It disappears, and so do I, back into my perfect kingdom.īut I think the whole night of the world I have caught but a glimpse of, and I am preoccupied all the next day. The ship sails on, and I sing of its safety. What must it be like, immortality? To live for a hundred thousand storms, a million infinite songs?
![mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone](https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1PC3wdkxz61VjSZFtq6yDSVXap/Mermaid-Clear-Silicone-Stamp-Seal-for-DIY-scrapbooking-photo-album-Decorative-clear-stamp-sheets-A1932.jpg)
Those who dwell here possess something called souls, something that allows them to live on, and on, though we of the water live for three hundred years before our bodies break upon the foam. I strain to see men on the ship, for I know there must be some. And I sing of its fierce magnificence, this world above, this angel-world. Water cascades from above-rain, it is rain!-and the bulging ocean tosses the ship like a bauble in its hand.
Mesmerizing mermaid the wishing stone crack#
Oh, ship, oh, wondrous object! And then sharp flashes of lightning crack open the sky, and thunder’s rumblings shoot across the waves. A freighter, carrying goods to other lands. It is a ship, sailing upon the dark waves! Long and gray, laden with boxes. New smells enfold me: oranges, pineapples, sandalwood.Īnd the first sight fascinates me. The first gasp of air terrifies me, but quickly I get my bearings. Young lords come in great haste at my call.Īnd when I am fifteen, I rise to the surface, as is my right, and come into the other world for the first time. Elaborate curtains of sponges and starfish adorn my bower, and sea treasure and luxury surrounds me. And I live in the most splendid of the seven seas, wonder upon wonder: brilliant Garibaldis and purple sawfish laze and bob anemone carpets of orange, pink, and yellow spread beneath me as I drift, combing my hair castles of red coral dot my domain, and majestic jade-green kelp forests, towering in the currents, mark my borders. My tail sparkles and gleams, my hair undulates like sunbeam shafts through the water. I am the most treasured, the most beautiful. I rule gentle Pacificus for my father, and I am kind and generous. Once upon a time, I am the most precious of the Sea King’s seven daughters, fondled and dandled, and loved by all. You know, the way you go off sometimes, like that girl in I Never Promised You a Rose Garden you just zone out, and then I wish I could tell you different, hon, but just like on Dallas, it was all a dream. It was because you wanted that boy, and … Tell me about that wide-open space of yours, got you into all this shit in the first place. Wide open spaces, ha! Tell me, girlfriend. What’s to make them grow some brains now?īut so what if they do figure it out? What have you got to look forward to out here, you stupid, crazy loser? What the fuck is the big allure, these wide-open spaces they call the world? They won’t find this they won’t ever know you still hear the songs.