with <br />arms outstreched <br />and crowned with wisps <br />of seaweed hair she floats, eyes closed <br />in a world of perfect silence <br />that is loud enough <br />to hear <br />light <br />a kaleidoscope <br />a shimmering, elusive glimmer <br />dances across the bottom, the reflection <br />of a white hot sun that fails <br />to reach beyond <br />the blue <br />alone <br />she dives spins glides <br />in effortless infinite motion <br />bubbles trailing like round diamonds <br />in a perfect sapphire sea <br />surging forward <br />free <br />scales <br />pearly sheened <br />each a tiny peacock's feather <br />with ridges guilded gold with care <br />fins, flimsy pink and sheer <br />drape like silk <br />weightless <br />suddenly <br />the quietness is broken <br />the bubble bursts and she is gone <br />the mermaid is lost, the solitude forgotten <br />replaced by a girl with nothing to <br />do on a summer's day <br />but dream<br /><br />Laura Sewell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/with-arms-outstretched/
