I heard the sirens song

calling me into the sea

the deep blue gray

outstreaching its fingers

as if to say......

come to me

I have heard this vioce

in my mind before

i thought it was a dream

but it was the sea bekoning

to me.... as if to say.....

come to me

I heeded the siren

i walked into the sea

the force was over whelming

as it called to me......

come to me

i am a child of the sea

perhaps a mermaid

or a queen

I was called by the powers

that beckoned to me

I can raise the ocean tide

and then watch it ebb

carrying with it

all my troubles

and easing my head

My days are now endless

and my powers are strong

and i call out to others

with the siren song.....

come to me

I have found my place

amoungst the seaweed

and shells

i have realized the power

and i call it my home

~Sherry Livesay

 

The Sound of the Sea

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,

And round the pebbly beaches far and wide

I heard the first wave of the rising tide

Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;

A voice out of the silence of the deep,

A sound mysteriously multiplied

As of a cataract from the mountain's side,

Or a roar of winds upon a wooded steep.

So comes to us at times, from the unknown

And inaccessible solitudes of being,

the rushing of the sea tides of the soul;

And inspirations, that we deem our own,

Are some divine foreshadowing and focusing

Of things beyond our reason or control.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow