Selkie Boy Poem by Eli J Tod

The rain starts falling
When the angels begin to cry
To the man in the moon
She curtseys each night.
The feel of myths
Call her deep
Beloved are the selkies
Whom she dreams of in sleep.

Shadow’s dark cloak
Tossed away
She wonders this time
If he has come to stay.
Oblivious to her attraction
He advances still closer
With no notice of her reaction
Paralyzing, terrorizing
He froze her.

She wishes to keep true
Her whimsical ways
He’s too real for her
She knows
She must leave
She can’t stay.

He won’t wait longer
Than a summer night’s tide
Then he’ll leave her
As before
With only tears left to hide.

She is willful
Determined
He won’t find her this time
Her heart
She hasn’t recovered
But she refuses to rewind.

Still she lingers
To twirl in the clouds
It’s this letting go…
She hasn’t figured out
How.

And this is how
He finds her
Lost amidst a memory
And this is when
He embraces her
Erasing, replacing the reverie.

She loses herself
In his smile, his eyes
Knowing he will leave
When in comes the tide.

All cares she throws away
For it’s this moment
That is now
After this, the letting go
She’ll figure out somehow.