Mermaid poem

So what?

So what if I'm a Mermaid?

Strangled by seaweed

going down because of male greed.

Look at my little sister

there she sits on a cold stone

she was a fearless maid, now sinister

once upon a time we saw how the lucky planets on her shone

now she freezes down to the bone

in Denmark.

She's raped, cold and old.

Old cold stone.

Exposed to every hungry look

A tsunami the shores of earth shook

many years before  Andersen wrote about her virginity lost

My sister, she will never defrost

and for me, there is no going back

from this god forgotten wrack.

A man stepped ashore

We thought he was hoping to score

but he showed me his true colours

and we became lovers.

Humans are ignorant 

virgins aren't always innocent

their souls lost in the murk.

We Mermaids don't do homework. 

So what if I'm a Mermaid?