By Hank Christian
Date: 28 August 2000

Mermaids Cannot Cry

A flip of fin
And my heart begins the wait
Of lonely washed moments
That will stretch ever morrow after morrow
Until your return to the throne
That rules o'er my sea.
And the hardest part of it all 
Is the damnable realization
That mermaids cannot cry.

8.28.00       *Hank*