barbara

“Selkie” ©barbara, FAWM2020, Feb 2020

Lyrics:

Dark eyes are surfacing
out on the water
beckoning “darling, come home”
Fly to the window
and see if it opens,
he’s gone and there’s no one to know

My child I adore you,
I’ll try to come for you,
don’t cry when you wake for the day
For here I was withering,
starved of my soul,
I’m no good for you, wasting away

Today he was careless
A moment I’d hoped for
The warden not minding the keys
Wrapped in my element,
no looking back,
I run fast for the nourishing sea

Now stars shine above me,
I know who I am,
I remember what living is for
With dark eyes I’ll seek you
And swim close to greet you
With a heart so irreparably torn

Dark eyes are surfacing
out on the water
beckoning “darling, come home”

(C) Barbara Roughton