Mermaid
Someday I’ll be a mermaid, though you may not know it yet,
I'll finally swim free of here, no longer my parent’s pet.
My scales will be so gorgeous, an alluring glossy mesh,
My tail will finally grow out, no longer constrained by flesh.
My skin will be soft like silk, smoother than a ship’s sail,
My hair will be long and lustrous, never again short and male.
My siren’s song will be beautiful, formerly raspy and incomplete,
I won’t be their whipping boy, an easy mark to be beat.
I’ll rule the sea, immune to the whims of the riptide,
I’ll rise above the wave, life mine to decide.
Someday I’ll be a mermaid, the queen of my own undersea court,
But till then I'll be a landlubber, gazing longingly out to port.
