(Part of the Princess Series of Poems)
She sits immortal on a rock forever in Langeline Quay,
gazing forward to the sea, the
human world behind her,
cast in bronze, a statue caught mid-transformation,
no longer
mermaid, nor terra’d creation on
two legs, seeking a love
she cannot have, this young girl of
fabled lore without voice,
a legend, a myth, a Disney Princess
played out contrarily,
no princely rescue, no happily ever
after, now transfigured,
a daughter of the air, condemned to
provide cooling breezes
to a hot global world, three
hundred years of servitude,
unable ever to return to the
mermaid realm under the sea,
unable still to confess her love to
her prince betrothed
to another in his own confusion, condemned
himself,
his true love lost in
her silence.
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