Song of the sea

Poem

© 2023, Tanweer Dar

It started as

Barely a whisper

A gentle breeze

A flowing river

Melody formed

A strange sensation

No birdsong this

Nor singing cetacean

Inexplicably drawn

To its peculiar cadence

Could it truly be

The voice of maidens

Into the sea

I willingly walked

Utterly oblivious

To that which stalked

Beneath the waves

I am pulled smiling

By the source of the sound

So beautiful, beguiling