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freeing mermaids

Linda M. Crate

i’m more than all the things
you never said to me
or the pink and red
lipstick stains i left
down the
sides of your cheeks and lips
which you never
deserved,
but even the pied piper
fooled a dame or two;
i know now not to fall for the music if it’s
too sweet because if it’s too good to be true
it always is—
false and insincere
you struck with me with the crescendo
of mountains,
but i am a moon child
daughter of silver and waves
i will devour you in the eye of the storm and crash
my hurricanes into your mountains
free all the sirens
in your eyes;
because once they were just mermaids
with dreams.

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