Ursula's Song

“Ursula’s Song”

 

"Come find me

In my dark Sea Cave

If you dare

 

Come find me

In my Octopus Garden

For a taste of something

extraordinarily marvelous

 

You may think me Evil,

I suppose you may be Right?

Or you may be wrong?

I do not care

either Witch way…

 

I am

Simply

The Vessel Voice of the World;

 

Come to me

And meet me where

Mystery kisses the Deep

And I will Offer you

Delicious Choice.

 

But what can She give?

What can She sacrifice?

What can She bargain for

When She is destitute?

 

The Body it is then…

Blood or Bone?

Milk or Marrow?

Perhaps an unborn child?

 

Will a glint of delight

From the Eye suffice?

Or perhaps Her Beauty?

I suppose She can trade her Song…?

 

The Voice of a Woman is such a small Price for the Promise of happiness,

Is it not?

 

Risky you say?

What is life without a little risk

my Darling Dear?

 

Pay no mind to those

Gossiping Seagulls,

Or those envious scuttling Crabs,

 

For they do not know

what it is to be She

And in the end,

We shall

In time

all turn to Sea Foam

In the End

 

So what will it be

You Pretty Pretty Thing?"

 

- Monterey, staring at the sea and thinking of the Little Mermaid, by

Hans Christian Anderson.

08/11/22, 5:43 pm

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