Cyclops and the Mermaid

                                                        (Image from Pre07.deviantart.net)

Cyclops’ eye is brown,

once green but too much envy

of the two-eyed changed the color to rust.

He once caught a mermaid

in his net intended for fish.

He pulled her out of the water roughly,

bruising her hands stuck in the rope.

Her tail instantly turned into legs

but the rarely-used limbs

made her stumble in the sand as she ran.

Cyclops picked her up gently and with a smirk

said that if she tried to escape again,

he would eat her raw without vinegar or salt.

She thought he looked almost handsome

when he smiled.