You want to me swim shallow..

In the surface.. float free in the stream.

Little do you know, Deep in the ocean below

I am a mermaid who lives in the depths..

A mermaid in love with an earthy you..a dream 

I try to swim shallow with you,  and follow..

While my gills crave for love’s real depth

My heart  choosing hesitant the pale..hollow.

Knowing I will drown deep in the shallow.

For you fear and won’t  follow me to our depth..

I choose this  moment shallow and hollow..

Than any eons without you and your hello..

I pretend my heart is just formless like jello

And fit your whims.. the deep or hollow

Someday you will know all my effort to be shallow

Are but my depth of  yearning every morrow

For I choose not to part from you in sorrow..

I would rather live this lie in shallow..

So I can live my truth of love.. with you.. my fellow!

Even if heart break is all that will follow!