Beware of The Sirens!

Dana Zeghib

by Dana Zeghib

Story

The sea, what an alluring escape!

The blinding sun illuminates the water’s surface with its warm smile,

Its golden light traps itself in the ocean’s transparent frames

Drums of war crashing against the course shoreline;

With vexation, it raged!


She was the home of the breathtaking creatures of shimmering scales

The ocean tide pulls back the crystal water as a retreat

To only kiss the land once again as a simple tease

Her crystal water is brimming with salt,

Humans mistake it as a taste of their own tears


A person’s soft cries of help grabs the attention of something near

Arresting faces prettier than the winter sun above pristine snow,

And bodies adapted to the ocean and sea


Their voices soothed with music,

Singing and crooning as they please


Beneath the surface drowns the ugly truth

That whoever messes with the sirens won’t complete their youth


In the deep, ocean blue waves

Lied their peculiar clones

And in their entanglement of their veins

Were their hearts: black stones

© Dana Zeghib 2024-03-10

Genres
Novels & Stories, Anthologies
Moods
Adventurous, Dark, Mysterious, Reflective
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