The Little Mermaid Speaks: Love, Loss and the Price of Transformation
A transformed speaker mourns the voice and past self surrendered for love, questioning whether the painful trade was worth it.
It hurts to walk on new legs: The curse of consonants. The wobble of vowels. And you for whom I gave up a kingdom Can never love that thing I was. When you look into my past You see Only weeds and scales. Once I had a voice. Now I have legs. Sometimes I wonder Was it a fair trade?
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