Transfiguration Of The Little Mermaid Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

[to Hans Christian Andersen]

finding beneath the waves a different way to be
she slept within the currents and was ill at ease
on the surfaces

and pleased at the depths and the deepening of light.
all that was long passed by and now
when the last day closed around her

no one heard her sigh above the churning waters
time there is no more time
and plunge the knife inside

so that it wounded no others.
oh did she die then we all asked
not knowing what we asked at all.

she wandered for awhile
and she was part of Light.
we cried.

and that was all...
and that was Everything.

mary angela douglas 23 april 2014