Joy In Everything Around Us

Lately I have been consumed by work and stress and life and I have been too caught up to write. It had been killing me. So I stated again. This poem is about the statue of a brass mermaid that is on my nightstand next to my bed. Ever since I got it over a year ago I have had some insane connection with it. Then the other day, in this awesome obscure antique shop i found this clamshell brass key. It was just to perfect. It has started as a poem, and will grow, has already, into so much more. :)

Find Joy in the things that you really connect with and keep them around you, let them inspire  you. When something speaks to you it is because the universe is trying to tell you something. Try listening for once. You'd be amazed at what you find. 

Mermaid's Key - Found, but Not Lost Or Forgotten

The Prayer of a Mermaid's Tale

The pressure to just be, was more than she could take 

Was more than she could bear, more than she could stand, more than she could tolerate.

Above dreary waves she dreamed of being, of feeling, of loving most of all

Giving up a piece of her sou; I can feel the yearning in her glance, the pierce of her gaze

“Dear Universe,” She must dream, “My Soul, my heart, my very being is torn from within.

Free me of this prison of not so happenstance; let me go and let me free.”

The ancient metal key she wore around her neck, purposefully hidden there in the beautiful strands of her hair and other jewelry,

Was more than just the precious thing it stood to for her; a world lost forever to her, but also a pining love that is eternally lost but not quite forgotten.

“Or forever keep me here; a sculpted figure of brass, a mere treasure now

Only a keepsake, a flash of something once grand and majestic

Something of such happenstance.”

So like this mermaid we must always try to be; filled with the courage of living hope that thrives there waiting under the sea

Dear Universe, We pray, give us the strength to love as freely and as deeply as she. 

Just as she, the little mermaid under the sea, willing to give up all to gain the love of her dreams

To sacrifice all, to fulfill her destiny, she swam waters unknown

May that we find the same end of fountains fulfilled and waters traversed.