Reflections of Mermaids

[Dark Muse]

Reflections of Mermaids

Do you ever wonder
where mermaids go
to see their own
reflections?

Do they gaze up
into the sky above,
with half-understanding
to pine away at the shifting
sight before their eyes
as they ponder this strange
world behind liquid glass
which they can never
quite reach.

And as we peer down
to watch ourselves
in the watery surface,
how do we know that we
are real, and what we see
below, is not but mermaids
looking upon themselves
instead.

We may be the ones
who live upon the other side
of the mirror, the opposite world,
we are but dreams and specters,
we are the reflections and
but fleeting dreams.

How do we know we are
not the ones living a backwards
world, and that we are the ones
who are not truly real.

And when we die
somewhere inside do we here
the mermaid cry as we vanish
out this illusionary existence.

Perhaps the reason why
we always pray upon a God
in the heavens above, is because
it is the mermaids who always
keep their gazes turned up
to see themselves reflected
within the sky?

[PrinceMyshkin]

As fluid, surely, as the elements in which the mermaids abide.

[hillwalker]

Delicately done - asking many fundamental questions of reality, existence and faith but with a deft, gentle touch.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you! I have a fascination with alternative worlds, and the idea of "reality" and if in fact it does exisit, and how do we know we ourselves our not someone/things invention or dream.

We call mermaids a myth, but perhaps we are in fact the myth of mermaids on some other plane.