She is a hurricane,
Not a woman from the sea.
She is the opposite of a mermaid.
She is not magic; she is a disaster.
Her hair does not flow with the wind
as she comes out of the water
with seashells in her hands.
That is a mermaid and she is the
opposite of a mermaid.
She is a hurricane.
She does what a hurricane does:
barges into people’s lives and
consumes everything she can touch and destroy.
You can’t hate her.
How can you? She is a force of nature.
But you can hate what she leaves behind.
It’s not seashells or a passing lullaby or sweet kisses,
but destruction and pain.
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Krystal Beatriz Galvis
Krystal Beatriz Galvis, born and raised in San Diego, California, is a writer fascinated with magic, fantasy, and darkness. She is a MFA graduate student at San Diego State University studying creative writing. Outside from writing short stories, she researches any Latinx fables or myths and writes small poems on her Instagram page under the hashtag #krystalg.
