by Dana Zeghib
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