The merchild

The water is her playground

Mama duck her nurse-maid

her giggles are the bubble

sand the dolphins her playmates
One day she'll leave the lake

and swim out to the sea

joining the other merfolk

in search of her lost family.
She was just a tiny merbaby

when a fisherman did find

the smallest of sea angel

tangled in his line.
The fisherman did have a

heart of love and soul of grace

he released the tiny mergirl

into the lake's gentle embrace.
The creatures of the lake

seeing the merchild left alone

decided they would raise

and love her as their own.