Woman's Worth in a Lost Land

poem

A lost embrace
In my arms
words gone in a whirlpool
waiting to be found
in a poem

a woman without a name
for who she is
where she's from
remains 
unrecognised

a mermaid
stranded on the shore
waiting to return
doing what she's told
she's still with no land, no home

what she believes in, she was made for
caught in fishermen's net
a flickering flame 
in…