The Triton's Daughter

One night by a pallid moon, at a grotto by the sea

My eyes beheld a sight now carved into my mind eternally

Raven locks, lily skin, the ample curves of womanhood

But with a tail of oceankind, the legends then I understood

Forbidden longing, two worlds were never meant to pair

Passion culled by siren song drifting on the ocean air

Daughter of the lonely deep, there is no home we both can share

A love that cannot be, yet somehow it has come to bear

Languishing in solitude without her

Fixating on the vision of ocean mists about her

Languishing in solitude without her

My bosom holds but half a heart without the triton's daughter

Fool, I said, within my mind, this love can't truly be

For you, the son of land-born man, and she the child of the rolling sea

But then my reason fell away beneath the soaring song of heart

She and I, my heart declared, shall tie as one and never part

But off the shore I thought I saw a luminescent eye

In a flicker it was gone and so I cast it from my mind

Foolish and myopic, I'm now haunted by the sight

It would undo the things I sought and cast my being into the night

Doomed from the start

A love maligned by land and sea

Born of the heart

Despite what others say should be

I hold no regrets

'Tis better to have loved and lost

But I shan't forget

My love, my life, the dreadful cost