I draw the water for the bathtub.
And as the mermaid of the bathtub I have special powers.
"Ring, ring, ring" yells the phone.
Mourn what you must mourn, cry when you must cry,
Life sometimes seems unfair. Some of us get more than
You may search for an answer for your sorrow and think
Take all the time you need for mourning.
Remember time is a wonderful healer.
You may never stop asking "why", but by asking and listening
One day you will have grown from this grief,
The Beginning.
I climb into my own ocean, it is warm and tinted green.
I am the mermaid of the bathtub.
I lie down and sink as deeply as I can go; only my nose
sticks out.
My hair flows all around me in my private world.
Under the water there is only the sound of silence.
I can close my eyes and float away to the Caribbean Sea
Where the tide carries me far, far away from the shore.
Away from yesterday and today, floating farther and farther
To the place where the sea meets the sky.
The spell is broken, the mermaid emerges with soap suds
In her eyes. The suds burn and so does the cold apartment air.
Mermaids are meant to live beneath the water.
For this loss and all the other losses in your life.
Although life may seem very inconsistent,
Remember, while immersed in your sorrow...
The Earth still revolves around the Sun, the Moon still
Orbits the Earth, and somehow life still goes on.
Our share of pain. But no one can compare the grief of one
Person with that of another. Pain has no understanding of degree.
And so we should not make comparisons of depth or intensity.
You will never find one.
Some questions have no answers.
Use your memories of better days, of times that were
Full and rich with happiness.
Remove all the people from your life who do not support
Your grieving -- if you must.
And although some things will never be the same,
New days are ahead.
None of us know what the future holds, but one day you
Will find comfort and again have control over your life.
To your heart, you may find that every problem has
a solution.
And life will begin again.
The seasons will keep changing, the Earth will still revolve
Around the Sun, and the Moon around the Earth and
You around the precious moments of Life.
