She never means to lure them to their doom
enticing young sailors
to their shipwrecked and watery graves
She simply sings
out of loneliness
As she cannot swim
and has no boat
to carry her away
She calls out with a voice pure and lovely
a song haunting and ancient
and full of promise
She calls his name
and bids him hence
another beautiful boy
who has ventured too near
these shores
another beautiful boy
who will soon be
bloodied and broken
upon these jagged rocks
Soon she will kiss away
his life’s last breath
and wonder how it can be
that still
she is so lonely
on this empty island