Mermaids Collective

06/10/2026

Mystified

The magic of the morning mist clings to comfort
these perpetually haunting mountains.

Mystifying all she gently touches,
she sprite dances on tip toe
through her sleepy valley ballets
Where dripping dewdrops sparkle
like tinsel on wanton limbs
desperate for a more pristine air.

I dare to breathe it in,
basking in its lusciousness,
drowning in its freshest petrichor.

Massaged mercifully by her
dissipating fingers of cleansing calm,
I soak my sorrows head to toe with deliverance
from an evening's shadow that sunk
sulking into sun's demise.

Tomorrow forever gone, new day of hope dawns.
Another chance to be who I long to be.

~P.S. Colley
c. December 28, 2024
Songs of Appalachia

06/09/2026

Sorrow's Prayer

Two strangers within
stalk and vie, once again,
For another chance to boldly dance
across my mind.
They hear no music,
they laugh no laughter.
They have forgotten,
promises begotten hereafter.
They have played away
a play of days
that ticked away the clock
of a more precious time.

One whispers hurt,
"Please hear my unspoken silence."
One screams proud,
aloud from a cold unheard.
One pleads for mercy from
betrayal's cruel unkindness.
One cries, eyes blinded
by each piercing, heartless word.

One cannot deny the frozen stare of either.
One cannot reply, "I dare chose not to be the fighter."
One who fights, fights as captive of a dream,
Dreamt by another, to smother what goes unseen.

Gone, all hope of some sane and peaceful solution.
Gone, all hope of any amicable resolution.
Gone, all hope of soul's united, raging empty into night.
Gone, all hope of one within them.......two loves simply die.

For neither extends the hand of joyful adoration,
For both have hung bleeding upon a sacrificial cross.
For what? That love can find its humblest station
Forever on lips, mumbling rumors of love that's lost?

Find me now, my sweet and perfect healing Savior.
Find me somewhere where there is no mortal pain.
Find me where two within live as eternal friends,
Find repentance and embrace forgiveness, once again.

~P.S. Colley~
c, 2025

06/04/2026

Tempest Sea

Those twisting, turning, tossing turrets
Keep rolling, rocking, towards the sea
To dash on stones, a bashing, crashing,
Pounding, hounding me.

Rush in, rush out, tides in, tides out,
A whirling, swirling, curling sea,
Licking shorelines, ebb and flow,
Tossing, bossing me.

Throbbing, bobbing, up and down,
I'm kicking, flailing, fighting sea,
Until Helplessly.......
Feet on sand that melts to panic,
Someone rescue me !

Fearful, tearful, bleary, weary,
Float and drift, last struggle ceased
Until finally....
Frothy foam, a beach to comb.
My Lord delivered me.

~P. S. Colley~
c. March 1989

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