The Unicorn And The Mermaid

He stands upon the barren cliffs,
his face turned to the sea.
Watching for his lady dear,
his true love from the deep.
Moonlight gleams on his ivory mane,
He is watching for his lady love,
though he knows it is in vain.

He remembers the night was warm,
when she stepped out of the serf,
and made her virgin footprints,
on the unforgiving earth.
He went to her,
on that moonlit night,
down to the wild sea shore.
And took her on a wondrous trip,
that they could share for ever more.

She saw the questions in his eyes,
and it very near broke her heart.
To see how much he loved her too,
but yet the would have to part.

Her kind could never walk the earth,
their lifeblood was the sea.
Which set the stage for heartbreak,
and the love that could never be.

In quiet tones,
she told him then about the legend of Toh-ree.
And how that mermaid had walked the beach,
she born of the sea.
And how in death,
Toh-ree had been with her love,
from dusk till dawn.

And when the sun had claimed the 'morn,
alas the mermaid was gone.
Her essence had been drawn to the heavens,
then rained down upon the earth.
To return her wayward soul
to the fathoms of her birth.

The unicorn gazed at his lady love,
and a tear rolled down his cheek.
He softly nuzzled her closer,
and like that,
they fell asleep.

When he awoke at dawn to see her gone,
his heart was wrenched with pain.
He felt as though his soul had died,
as he stood there in the rain.
So now he stands upon his barren cliffs,
his head turned to the sea.
And he cries for his lady dear,
his true love from the deep.