Half Way Between Earth & Sea

Most of you know I am a Surfer Girl

so mermaids 

have always sort of 

been my thing

when I was a kid 

I learned to paint

realistically 

I primarily painted portraits

with the concept that the result

 should look exactly like the person

so as a painter

 I know I can do that

But

my inner artist

 wants to find the art 

that is outside myself

somewhere half way between

 the earth and the sea

 is the girl

 who imagines life as a mermaid

and 

under the sea life is blurry 

not well defined at all

 

for a Mer Girl 

things are down right strange 

how did she even get there

 how did she even breath

 her first breath of salt

 any way

what does a mer girl see

 when she looks in that broken Mirror

 at the bottom 

of the deep blue sea

not the detailed portrait 

an earth girl sees 

that's for sure

life halfway between earth and sea is seen with much softer eyes 

of that I am sure