When I was younger
My whole world was mermaids
Every hour of every day
Seaweed braided hair and scales  
I'm gliding through the house
In slow motion, waving my arms about
Under the sea as long as I'm aware
Even now when I swim I transport myself
To blue tropical seas in which my childhood dreams
Let themselves flow free
I was a mermaid growing up
It taught me how to swim
Out of the need to be what I mimed
In the bath every evening
Self taught in my teens, better late than never
My only inspiration for fitness
The mermaid, my own self portrait
Re-imagined