The Siren's Song

Do you hear the lover’s cries

From rose petals parted and trembling?

The bittersweet tears as they run into the ocean,

Become a heart-wrenching melody that crawls

Along the waves to where your ship lies,

Waiting for nothing, yet waiting nonetheless.

It calls to you.

It entrances you.

It’s claws sink into your chest,

Seizing your heart in its cold grip,

Pulling you into the fog,

Into the unknown.

 

And as your body washes up onto the shore,

She screams in outrage; wails in despair.

You are not the one she sung for,

You are not her lover lost to the waters so long ago.

Your cold colorless body mocks her anguish.

Sinking to her knees, her hands graze the pristine sand.

And once again

Her soul tears open.

The deadly melody, pale and soft,

Whispers of death and a love lost

Against her blue lips, as cold as the corpse-

The Siren’s song. 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Geminair]

i really like this and your view on not only the irresistible call but of the loss it can create too and the turmoil that soul destroying eclipse is felt because she feels responsible in some way

[grim]

that was a unique approach to an age old story, very intriging and good.