My Choice is My Voice

Is it worth my tail?

Being with one I think I love

Placing my name in a fancy font on this scroll

Will allow me to live above

There's a man up on shore

The one I want to know and adore

To walk with upon the sidewalk

To speak to in human talk

My voice, the only thing he knows of me

Walking towards him, a mute girl, who will he see?

Someone he won't learn to accept

Someone he'll soon reject?

I'm a salt water loving mermaid

Who lives under the miraculous sea

And to that title I will be claimed

Not to a boy who can't presently be named

So, I swim as fast as my inherited tail can go

 I move as swiftly as the ocean flows

Right into the arms of my loving father

Because without him I cannot be bothered

Being without the prince might crack my heart

It could do worse and tear it apart

But to live distant from my loved ones

Hurts more than any curse or gun

So, I'll go ahead and make my choice

It won't cost much, just my voice

I'm not a poor, unfortunate soul

A prince's wife is not my goal

As time goes by, family will be all that mattered

For without it, my whole world would be shattered