Do You Believe?

The following is an excerpt from merlore. Do you believe that merpeople (aka mermaids and mermen) exist or once existed?

My Love, the Sea

What do I love, I love the sea

The sea, the sea

Wild water where I swim free

Deep in the shadows

Where no light goes

The sea, the sea

Is home to me

Here I live

Here I loved

Here I moved in waters wide

Always my lover by my side

I see him now as I did that day

Unchanged by time, but far way

Captured at the whim of men

I'm never to know what became of him

They turned my day into night

When they lowered their net laced with light,

And took my love I know not where

For he forbade me to follow him there

Captured at the whim of men

Never to be seen again

Time softens the memory of his face

Yet still he haunts the lighter place?

The green-blue water and the sky

Where waves reach out and seagulls sigh?

Year have passed, and though I pray

I cannot forgive him what he could not allay

I love him, and I love him not

Pain the price that love forgot

Though ever I call this place my home

Long have I wandered the seas alone

What do I love, I love the sea

The sea, the sea

Wild water where I swim free

Deep in the shadows

Where no light goes

The sea, the sea

Is home to me

Comments: 33

Bubbeh Maisse (aka, G T) Jan 17, 2008, 7:46pm EST

Beautiful, Kate

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Chelsea R. Jan 17, 2008, 7:57pm EST

great! 10!

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Lyn Owen Jan 17, 2008, 8:39pm EST

The rating I gave did not register, Nice poem

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Lyn Owen Jan 17, 2008, 8:40pm EST

I got it to go. What is going on with this site today?

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Lou Anne L. Jan 17, 2008, 10:29pm EST

well why not....if we supposedly came from the sea...there should be a time in place for merpeople

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Jo H. Jan 17, 2008, 10:56pm EST

Beautifull Kate. a 10.

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*Carol ~Bronx Southern Belle D. Jan 17, 2008, 11:05pm EST

Not only do I believe in Mermaids and Mermen, I know some. Just come to La la Land and you'll meet them. THis was beautiful.
You're featured in La La Land.

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Kay M. Jan 17, 2008, 11:52pm EST

Very nice!

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Charli Mills Jan 18, 2008, 12:09am EST

Beautiful, sad romantic poem. The Washoe say that water babies live in Lake Tahoe. There were also crazy stories about Pyramid Lake (north of Reno, NV). In the Great Lake region there are plenty of legends of mer-people.

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Lynn Doiron Jan 18, 2008, 8:47am EST

I believe whales learned how to sing from mermen.

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Michelle W. Jan 18, 2008, 10:43am EST

Beautiful!

Peace.

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Human, Katherine, seeker of intergalactic life, inhabitant of Earth Jan 18, 2008, 12:28pm EST

Lovely picture and beautiful poetry.

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Tristan Russell Jan 18, 2008, 1:03pm EST

Beautiful imagery and poetry, but no, there is no evidence that "fish people" have ever been real. Honestly people, I can appreciate verse and imagination, but let's be a bit more down-to-earth before we start confusing beauty with reality.

@Lou Anne L: Humans did not crawl out of the sea. Hit talkorigins.org to learn more.

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Shiela B. Jan 18, 2008, 3:59pm EST

You never know what can be out there. Just because no one has reported "seeing" one doesn't mean they don't exist. Look at all the animals discovered in the last few years.

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Baiden F. Jan 18, 2008, 6:22pm EST

this was nice picture and poetry. It is possible, isn't Nessie for real ?

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Kate Keeley Jan 18, 2008, 8:34pm EST

Thank you, Queen Carol, for the feature!

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Kate Keeley Jan 18, 2008, 9:03pm EST

Shiela makes a good point. Only in 1938 did they discover the coelacanth, an amazingly unattractive fish that has been haunting the deep blue for hundreds of millions, possibly even a billion, years or more. Scientists thought the coelacanth went extinct some 65 million years ago (sources disagree on the exact number of millions). That amount of time is hard to imagine. Who knows what we've missed?

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Human, Katherine, seeker of intergalactic life, inhabitant of Earth Jan 18, 2008, 10:47pm EST

The ocean is very deep, and we will never explore it all, perhaps creatures such as the mermaid are smart enough to not be seen or captured.

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Doc, in the middle, holding on... Curmudgeon esq. Jan 19, 2008, 1:11pm EST

Selkie.

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Tristan Russell Jan 19, 2008, 4:33pm EST

And here-in lies the same issue that is at the heart of religion and superstition: I'm not saying 100% there IS ABSOLUTELY NO MERFOLK. I'm saying there is no REASON to go ahead and believe anyway. That's insane.

Just because there's no proof that a tribe of Chinese-speaking, half-fish, half-frogs don't live in the core of Jupiter -- doesn't mean that we should believe it anyway.

Sure, they *might* be real, and so might mermaids, leprechauns, and Thor. But let's reserve judgment until we get some real reason to think they do, okay?

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Mariana T. Jan 19, 2008, 11:38pm EST

Oh I absolutely believe in the merfoks. They're out there - lovely poem and all so true- have you seen the videos I did of my ocean? Salud.

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Tammy Cramer Jan 20, 2008, 2:44pm EST

Beautiful poem! a 10 for you!
Do I believe? I think I agree with Hamlet "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreampt of in your philosophy"
Who knows?

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