Sense Sonnet - Acher

 My Mother, a Selkie

When I was nine years old, I found

A sealskin that my Father hid

In a chest buried underground.

When Mother saw the skin she did

Take it from me and told me when

She was a Selkie seal who had

Come from the sea and shed her skin.

My Father then did something bad,

Forced her to be his human wife.

But now she had her sealskin and

She could return to her sea life,

And hoped that I would understand.

Often when I am by the sea,

I know my Mother's watching me.