Mermaid

I've sought a mermaid all my life

for love upon the sea,

a pure and perfect romance

between the maid and me.

I dreamt of staring in her eyes

and drowning in her charms

and laying there upon the sea,

embraced in her soft arms.

I searched the world for twenty years

without the least success

and then again for twenty more,

despite the harsh duress.

At last I found my mermaid

and cursed my childhood wish,

she had two perfect legs below

and the top half of a fish.