She once fell in love

With the feet forbidden by the sea.

And so a curse was set,

To never set her free.

 

No memory of what came before,

She was a devil in disguise.

For her call would bring in men,

But her love would be scorn every time.

 

Atop a rock she waits now,

Every day for her prince’s face.

He will come to me, I must wait and see.

My prince will find me, for the sea takes great heed.

 

Every day she waits, and every day he comes.

A ship within the wind, pulling to the sun.

She sees a ship just now, one so full of men.

So a song she must sing, to bring one of them in.

 

Her song is a melody: a sweetness

Hard to mask.

But only one will be her true calling,

The one who tethers to her soul.

So her song begins, the one that must be sung.

The song of love and loss, the song of becoming one.

 

Come to me, oh come to me. I am one of the sea.

Ariel, they call me, passion ignites in me.

Come to me, oh come to me. Let me show you my home.

The wonders of the sea will soon become your own.

Love will last as the sea is deep, life will be your one true ship.

Come to me, oh come to me. Let me bring you home.

 

Overboard he jumps, into her sweet embrace;

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Among the waves he rides.

Swimming to her voice, the dimming of his pride.

 

So close, so close he his.

She can make out his face, and what he holds within.

Hair as dark as her sanctuary’s depths, eyes full of

forests instead of her everlasting sea.

Oh, it will soon be me he sees.

 

Her tail is sparkling under the sun,

Her hair is tumbling around her in flame.

The essence of beauty she has become…

But tainted were her true ways.

 

As forest eyes met the sea, he was pulled

Right in. For with dazed eyes and eager hands,

She pulled him down within.

Her intentions were so selfish indeed,

For the man was so in need.

 

Down, down, down,

She pulled him. Into the everlasting sea.

Together they were meant to be,

Together they would make a home.

But with surface fading and the darkness

Seeping in, her prince was lead to his death,

With his last final breath.

 

For love was all she wanted,

But a loss was all he would seize to be.

Her curse was never ending, just as the sea would seem.