I used to spend hours in the water in the summer pretending I was a Mermaid; pretending I had a long, strong tail.  I’d put my knees and feet together and kick as if I really had that tail.  I believed it, so it was true.  I’d pretend I was the princess of all Mermaids.  I had a gold crown and a pink tale with colored gemstones throughout.  I had long, blonde hair that flowed all around me in the water.  I had green eyes that could see under the water for miles.  We didn’t need voices because we communicated telepathically.  I could go anywhere I wanted.  Our world was limitless to us.

When He and I were Mermaids together, we were so very happy.  I was so very happy.  He was the Prince of the Mermen and I the Princess of the Mermaids.  We were always together – always.  All the other Merfolk wished they could be like us.  They could see how lucky we were to have what we had.  We were inseparable.  We never tired of each other’s company. No matter how much time went by, we never ran out of things to do, to talk about, or to explore.  We loved each other so much that we never wanted to be separate.  There was no need for space.  We went every where together and we would always find something mischievous to get into!

Then one day, we were exploring one of our favorite caverns and Triton came to us – our King.  He told us that it was time for a change.  He told us we needed to evolve.  He told us we had achieved all we could in the Merperson realm and we needed to grow.  We needed to learn more. He told us about a place called Earth.  He said this place needed us.  He said Earth needed our light.  When Triton described Earth to us, we were a little afraid, but we also got excited.  As much as we loved the realm we had lived in for so long, we got excited to breathe this thing he called air.  We got excited to feel the sun on our skin.  We got excited to have two feet and to walk on solid ground.  We were the Prince and the Princess, so we knew we had to go.  Triton told us we must lead by example.  If we didn’t agree to go, the others would be afraid and Earth needed their light too.  We knew we had to do this.

Then Triton spoke to us of the hard part.  He told us that we wouldn’t be able to be together on Earth like we had been there.  He told us that it would be harder.  He told us that one of us, and maybe even both of us, may never remember who we really were:  the inseparable Prince and Princess of the Merpeople.  This was the hard part, forgetting everything we once knew to start all over in a place we did not know of.

You and I talked it over and we agreed to come here.  We believed we were strong enough and that our love was far too powerful to have anything keep us apart.  We knew that because we shared a soul, it wouldn’t be possible for us to loose each other.  We promised we would always find each other and be together.  We knew we could do it.  We knew that where ever there is the ocean, there would be a beach and that’s how we would connect – through the energy of the water.  And, it’s true, we always have.

Here’s the thing about Merpeople:  They are always together.  Once together, they love forever.  That’s the thing about me – I’m still that Mermaid Princess who could never forget her Prince.

When the Mermaid sees her mate, she knows him.  Once she looks into his eyes, she knows him just the same as she knows her own eyes – even better.  She feels her connection to him on the soul level.  She remembers.

Because of this knowledge, she knows in her heart that she’s unable to love anyone else the way she loves him.  She knows that her heart is shared with him because she gave it to him before she ever breathed her first breath.  She knows she isn’t really living without him.  Even though she may breathe, laugh, smile, succeed, and survive, with out her Prince, well… she can never really live because she knows she cannot return to her real home of the water without him.  But until then, she keeps her commitment of trying to share light in this world.  She keeps exploring every cavern of this place called Earth that she can.  She keeps going, creating her world in light and love.

But - the Mermaid never forgets.  She knows who her love is.  She has no idea how to leave him behind.  How could she know this – after all, her heart is his.  Indeed, her heart is his.