Undine by Katie M. Skiff
She came from beyond the blackened woods,
Next to the ocean deep.
Beautiful, lean, and half-fish it seemed,
She swam when others sleep.
Dark, long hair flowed down her back,
The sea's enchanting daughter.
With pale blue eyes, just like the skies,
Connected with the water.
Yet even in her simple life,
She had a shadowy past.
A Demon came to claim her name,
But a suitor came at last.
She fell in love, they chose to wed,
They'd fight through storm and hail.
But the Demon still haunted the knight he taunted,
And the love was doomed to fail.
He abandoned her, out of fear and shame,
When she left, he mourned and cried.
Then her ghost returned, and his heart churned,
And to be with her, he died.