Love Poem: The Mermaid Calls
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Written by: Ann Foster

The Mermaid Calls

The Mermaid Calls

You draw me close, 
and I can not swim. 
You lure me, 
tempt me, 
and tell me…
things.

Your beauty is beyond, 
all that I have ever known, 
or will know. 
How can I look away?

I want to touch what I see, 
I want to be part of 
what I do not know.
You are illusive. 
You are austere…

The woman, 
bodiless and boundless.  
Her hair soft kelp, 
Her touch…

The hope to drown, 
a witless man, 
and support 
a mariner.