Mermaids Are Seasluts

I am nothing but a shell of the man I once was

So you can put me to your ear and actually hear yesteryear's ocean

I was in shape then

A much better built body of water with infinite waves and fathomless depths

Where you could have deep sea fishing for compliments

And caught plentiful schools of reassuring comments

Now all you get is the boot

You fell for the bait and got hooked on what you thought I was

Now we're both struggling to win this tug of war of the worlds

Where we breathe the same air, it's just done differently

And I'm tryin to figure out ways to have comfortably survive outside your element

Compromising intelligence

I dabbled in watered down thoughts that filtered in from the main stream

I'm offering mind altering ideas that make the most quiet natured brain scream

From exposure to the types of things that won't necessarily make you happier

They'll just give you a greater range of emotions

And I can feel myself getting lured into deeper oceans of fantasy land

Where people think they're as safe as cartoons simply because they speak in bubbles

A sanitized safe-haven where you could face Satan and have his faith straightened

His new goal would be to dethrone Poseidon and have Neptune's place taken

They'd swashbuckle with their pitchforks

While Lucifer shit talks and rips forts of coral reef

For relief they be like "bitch walk"

From this oversized aquarium that daddy kept cleanly to unhealthy degrees

Writing suicide notes with invisible ink on transparences

And posting them to the glass boundaries that surround the seas of change

Strangely enough, while bringing back the real

I could sense intense resistance so I had no other choice but to cut the line

I'm not saying you're overly naive

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