Selkie Skin

A song of mine, when I read the book "The field book of monsters." The myth of the selkie really intrigued me. I decided to twist the story to someone who was born a selkie in human form, knowing they belong somewhere else, but no sure where. Her parents are keeping her there.

I was born a maiden selkie
All I could speak was the sea.
Air seemed floodingly fair,
Reminded "To breathe is the be."

Stared down
And down
At the fish
Singing chants of "Lee."

"You'll drown,
Lee, you will drown,"
Said my pa,
Chained me from the sea.

They adored me as a daughter,
Though my home, being no longer shed,
Poisoned water, they endearingly kept
As a pet, my skin to warm their bed.

Deaf
I willed myself deaf,
To the sounds
That weren't of home.

The depths,
Down in the depths,
Muffled pleas
But below, I could not learn to roam.

Let
me go,
My skin
chokes on air.

Beware
The cold.
Wet doom
awaits you there.

Tear
Your sheets
Wrap me in my shell.

Sleep,
Lest I'll sleep,
and silent tale you'll tell.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Selkie
• Skin
• music
• myth
• seal
• woman
• hostage

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@rainbowanime2

I changed it in the song though, to a child that was a seal but was taken as a baby and was convinced into thinking it was a human, and its parents were keeping it hostage, hiding its skin, telling it the ocean was evil. The whole myth is so fascinating, I like the swimming away from the worries version too.

I kind of want to write another song about selkies, might have to use that one. Thank you

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@rainbowanime2

I read a book that said that they were seals who turned into women when they came out of the water, but sometimes men took them hostage and forced them to be their wives and bear their children, and if they hid their skin they could keep them there. But there would be some weird curse from the ocean on them, and if they went near the ocean they would drown.