By: Asefon Abdulganeey Stephen
Beside my ribs, rest my seine
On my left hands, lay the hook,
Pattering along foggy pathways
As owls hoot, cricket chirps
While,forest retains highest reticency,
Hop into my wooden boat
As it sets to float,
Casting my nets to south
As my mouth drools for a big fish!
Abruptly, my net pulls me down,
Underneath my boat,I hear
The bubbling of water,
Ohhhh Big shark!
My heart hollers.
Surfacing from the rivers,
A white-skinned velvet hands
Slithering like a snake
A softened-body creature!
Indeed- this is not a shark
I whisper,
seeing her stunning visage,
My hands forgo the nest,
I drool not for fish again!
But, for a mermaid - whose
Skin unblemished like a rain!
