I craft my home beneath violent waves

Making my bed where no men dare venture

This unforgiving sea, the only home I’ve ever known

But I am no creature from your fairy tales

I am serrated teeth and deformed bone

Webbed fingers and sickly-green scales

Faded black hair, tangled and brittle

My eyes, porous and bloodshot

Abused by salt

The ocean is no friend to me

Dark depths and killer creatures, lurking

Never touched by the golden sun,

They hunt me and haunt me

I am no siren singer, from your foolish fantasies

My voice: an earsplitting shriek

leaving my throat raw and bloody

I was made to repel, not to attract

Lovesick sailors

 To show them the sea is no place for mortal flesh

I am weak now, swimming listlessly, my mind burning

While my body slowly sinks into oblivion

This vast sea invades me and chokes me

Fat tears drip down my cheeks

Blending with this cursed ocean water

As I am drowned by this vengeful sea I once

Blindly Served