Monday, December 11, 2006

Mermaid in my bedroom


mermaid
Originally uploaded by alithea_a.
The door is locked.

The hinges couldn't be moved. The knob frozen. The floor slippery.

She went down on her stomach to crawl towards her bed and grasped the bedsheets to climb herself up.

On the bed, she looked down and noticed the ice melting to water, swirling in their own cryptic movement. Ice turned to tears as a sorrowful goodbye to winter and as spring enters the world.

She reaches forward to playfully thread water through her fingers. Water rippled and a rhythmic melody started to waft around the enchanting lagoon. A string of invisible strings lulled the enchanted creature to a relaxing state and...

Knock Knock Knock.

The lagoon shimmered until the water, the music, the ice vanished and left a charming feeling of pure magic.

"Its time to go down. Dinner is waiting", the deep voice announced from the other side of the door.

"Coming!" Footsteps shuffled away and she rolled over the bed to stare at her plain white ceiling.

She saw the sun shimmering across the water surface. She felt her hair waving across her face when slow currents embrace her.

She swam her way down to the palace beneath the ocean waves to dine with her family in her beautiful place by the sea.

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As long as I can remember, I held a fascination over mermaids. I would wind the mosquito net around my legs and pretend that it transformed into a tail. I would crawl around my parent's room swingling my 'tail' up and around as if fins were attached to them.

I have loved any stories regarding mermaids, even if some relates to too many negative connotations about them. I'll try to relate a few:

1. Mermaids don't have souls. They live for 300 years but when they die they turn into sea foam. ~ From Little Mermaid of Anderson Fairy Tales
2. Mermaids are 'cold-hearted' in the sense that they can't love or feel any warm emotions. ~ 'Charmed series' (I'm not sure if my words are right. If anyone knows the correct wording or the correct meaning, please tell me so. Thank you. ^^)
3. Mermaids care for a member of a younger generation to eat them one day. The young woman is of great beauty, that eating her 'meat' would make those of older generations young and beautiful again. ~ Mermaid Saga
4. A mortal who eats a mermaid's meat is bound to any of these two curses; (1) turn into a monster and eventually be killed from poison (2) be an immortal. Whether the mortal is killed, buried alive, shot, etc. he will still live but will feel the pain. ~ Mermaid's Saga

There are still other infos about mermaids but I have forgotten some of them.

Whether mermaids are good or bad is not of much importance to me. They hold a poowerful mysterious place among legends and legends are the stories reminding us of eccentricities in life which of may not exist but is accepted at most part of the world.

Mermaids hold a certain symbolism for each generation that roamed the earth. Whatever those meanings hold, as long as children listen to fairy tales, as long as elders continue to relate them to the new generations, mermaids will come to each and everyone's childhood dreams... and remind everyone that once upon a time, there was a kingdom by the sea...

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