I heard the mermaids singing

I do not think they will sing to me,

I am old and full of years

look like a dawn voyager  on a troubled sea

The silence in my soul is deafening

so tired of waiting for the day to dawn,

crushed beneathe a load of care,

silent among the elite like a fawn

I want to slip under the waves

let Orpheus lead the savage race,

from out of the dark door of the secret earth

a solitary figure moves in silent grace

The wind whispers past the sand dunes

stars like icicles hang on black velvet sky

if all the world and Love were young

i'd. E holding you now as my soul does fly

Tho I am old now and full of years

I recall her youth, the garden in her face

eyes like fountains so crystal clear

held tight by her with angelic gace