My Ocean

[wild_dreamer]

My ocean
Is a darker, colder one than yours
Full of mystery
And icy depths
And sudden drop offs.

Your ocean is warm
Inviting, crystal blue
and white sand beaches
Full of shells and sunlight
And dreams of buoyancy

Here the mermaids grin
with mouths full of sharpness
Like the broken edges
Of the shells scattered
on the rocky shores

They will pull you under
like currents
And devour
Your heart
in the darkness

This is not our fairy tale
and my castles were white sand
Soft under the sun
Until the tide came in
and swept them back
From whence they came