In ancient times mermaids and mermen flourished.

Back then porpoises and humans mated — creating a hybrid–the mermaid.

Hard to believe…but I know…I am a mermaid.

I’m an ordinary human being on land until I dive into the sea. Then my mermaid powers take over and I’m faster than a Mako shark.

Anything can happen under the sea. When you go really deep,

that is when everything happens.

In the depths
of the ocean where
sunlight never shines
sea creatures transform
their bodies into light

I prefer being in the sea, but the ocean is so polluted that many of us mermaids and mermen have to live on land. I did not want to go and leave my Neptune Palace Home , but I was dying and could not breathe. Some of us are very allergic to the things that float down to the bottom of the sea — plastic cups, plastic straws, everything that is plastic. So we had to migrate or else we would die. We choose remote places like small-uninabited islands.

morning news
whales belly filled

with styrofoam
my friends dying
in an ocean filled with tears

Mermaids and mermen who migrate have certain similar characteristics. Our eyes have that common porpoise shape…like we are smiling all the time. Contrary to popular folklore we do not have scaly skin. Our skin is porpoise smoothe. Some of us are coal black, some brownish some pinkish. Our hair matches the color range of our skin. We are all robust and fairly tall–taking after the Bottle-Nose Porpoise. Our skeletons are completely human like. However, our senses are a hundred times more powerful than humans. We can hear, smell and feel things humans cannot fathom. We live thousands of years longer than human beings.

Time has offered us wisdom . . .

Glaciers melt faster every year. It is only a matter of time when the oceans rise and water covers the earth. Then we shall return to our home and swim in peace forever.

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