And
yesterday's sand has long since been dusted
from the soles of her feet
She walks a different
ground now, untouched by his presence
Yet his spirit is the nature of hawk, hovering
still amidst currents, overseeing
The day before they
were both different beings
She who now wanders alone was then a beautiful
mermaid, the pride of the sea
Prisoner of one fierce and dangerous dragon
He
supported nine heads upon his vast shoulders,
and with these he uttered words that instilled
such fear into this bewildering mermaid that
she could not escape
She was a prisoner not of the dragon in fact,
but of her own fears
This captivity had
begun sometime in the mermaid's childhood
And it went on for so long that time became
frozen and the mermaid remained a child within
as her body grew up
Her innocence was
still virgin to the ways of the world, unsuspecting
of malice
Once, years before her abduction the mermaid
had, in a fortuitous event, met him
He who was now a hawk had then been a very very
small turtle, although endowed with great fame
as a master of the then unknown world of dreams
When
this turtle slept, the inner silence which it
would attain as it created could penetrate and
affect all the surrounding beings, inspiring
an enduring calmness to rise forthwith, a peace
that changed all things
All things dark became bright under this light
the little turtle endowed, much like the light
the wonderful mermaid shed on everything that
came near her
By
chance, or by no chance at all, the turtle had
come to sleep near the dragon's lair after a
long swim across the oceans
As
it slept the dragon was overcome by a feeling
it had never before experienced and it fell
to sleep, a rare occasion for the nine headed
monster
The astute dragon
had let down its guard
With this the mermaid, who because of a similar
nature was not put to sleep by the turtles creative
dreaming, slipped out of the cave in which she
had been retained for so long, and she swam
At
first she froze, dazzled by the peaceful beauty
that underwater world was submerged in, but
soon she was up and about, unaware that the
precious mood that she was immersed in had been
caused by the little turtle
She
swam and swam, inspecting every little mount
or crevice for some time until at last she came
face to face with the turtle
It was love at first
sight
The turtle awoke
to a sight more beautiful than any he had ever
dreamed up
The mermaid peered into the deep eyes of the
most loving and benevolent creature she would
ever meet
At once the turtle, gifted with the power of
creation, changed into a dolphin and so quickly
he and the mermaid began to swim away from the
dragons domain
But
with the awakening of the turtle came the awakening
of the dragon, and he too wanted the mermaid,
so he gave chase to the two
With
all its strength the dolphin swam as fast as
he could, now carrying the mermaid, yet the
dragon was at its heels and closing in
Knowing
that they would be unable to escape the dragon,
the dolphin released the mermaid and turned
around to face the dragon
The
evil dragon was coming towards the dolphin at
great speed, and surely it would destroy the
dreamer on impact, but at the moment when the
two were to crash into one another, the dolphin
willed himself into a gigantic whale, and with
one big gulp it swallowed the dragon
This
was not enough to exterminate the evil-doer
so after swallowing the dragon the whale became
a burst of flames which was immediately put
out by the seas
All that was left were a few bubbles drifting
upwards towards the heavens of air
The
mermaid was heartbroken, her love was gone,
but she was free, and so saddened she swam ashore
to leave the waters forever and die at the shore
of the sea to which she was born and meet her
heart in the heavens, but alas, soon after she
had left the wave break and lain on the sand
she noticed that she was not one who was perishing
Her tails and scales
had given way to two beautiful legs and the
mermaid was now a woman
Meanwhile the bubbles
had risen to the surface
And where the world of sea and air meet, there
at the swaying border between worlds arose a
hawk of high degree
It was he who had
risen as a seemingly normal group of rising
bubbles in the ocean
It was he who had now changed into a hawk and
taken flight to search for his loved one
The hawk witnessed
the metamorphosis from mermaid to woman
He had willed it and with a screech he called
to her from the air
This was today, and
the mermaid looked up and recognized him from
a distance
He swooped down to her encounter and landed
on the ground beside her, immediately transforming
himself into a man and match her
The mermaid and the
turtle
The woman and the
man
You
and I