Mermaid's Tale

by Sandra Macdougall (Edited by Lynne Hand)

As a child, Merma once walked upon earth's greenest fields. She experienced the summer grass beneath her feet and wore shoes that carried her over rocky terrain. She stubbed her toes and skinned her knees yet neither did she escape the pain of those wounds than she did the pain of a broken heart as an adult.

She lost her love to as much greed as any man could acquire, greed for luxury , greed for temporary pleasure and greed through self absorbed advancement. Love no longer had value to him, her time meant little and her heart was no longer enough to offer him happiness.