​do you feel in control? admit it, you don’t

that energy level, this state of mind

your anxious mind racing

for monsters that swim

but are there birds to sing each morning in?

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selkie-siren lured, she did him

into a freezing sea

helped him feel more alive

than he ever had been

telt him she could destroy his family

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striking vipers, crimson-drenched him

torn in two

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such shaming of freedom for animal lust?

but this mating mind did save mankind

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such a sigh of release too soon lost

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tried to stick him back together

with love’s never-sealing glue

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