Metamorphosis Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Lucas Malan)

In the morning at first light
you do awake me
to splash around with you in the water,
where you swim like a mermaid
in water clearer than glass.

In the afternoons in the warm water
you dive graceful with an arch,
you swim as if you do belong in the water,
like a water-beast without fear
and are neither fish nor flesh.

At night the water gleams like stars
on your luring body while you do float around.
When you find a cool place in the summer-heat,
you do transform into a mature woman.

[Reference:"Metamorfose" (Metamorphosis)by Lucas Malan.]