Stavanger Bay la llorona

she thinks about the past
and she screams, you have taken
you have taken from me, Sea
she was supposed to be their mother
but now she has to cry
where are my children?

she once took, and now they have been taken
and the sea
is their mother
and she is a cry
and her children
are an echo from the past

but isn't loss a sea?
isn't life a mother?
and isn't it better that they never had time to cry?
to fear? there is nothing worse than dead children
except a child whose innocence has prematurely passed.
can she accept that? it has taken

years, and she still misses her mother
sweet hind, who soothed her cries
who placed her at her breast with the other children
and who is now a thing of the past
all daughters are eventually taken
but hers have been taken by the sea

Or did she give them up with a zealous cry?
did she cast those children
into the past
was she the taker? had she taken
them to the sea?
but the sea had demanded it, she was the mother...

a mother who had murdered her children
who had chased her girl back to her past
she had taken
them into the sea
and now the mother
cries

where are my children? why must a mother cry,
'oh sea, you have taken! you have taken from me
and I cannot undo what has passed.'