Black Day in December

	Mermaid sits on a Siwash Rock in the harbour
	watching the children play
	Every day, sun or rain
	Old man kneels to the earth to pray
	for the rain and the stars and the cars at the heart
	A dark and windy Vancouver
	A black day in December
	She sees the worst is yet to come
	A big wave on the horizon
	The first wind blowing in
	Left Stanley's soldiers felled and broken
	Old man kneels to the earth in his mother's garden
	Where his own father was laid
	Every day, sun or rain
	Mermaid sits on her rock and she prays
	For the salmon in the sea, for the winged in the trees
	For the old man on his knees
	For the beauty in the park, and the cars at the heart
	Her own sisters and her brothers
	And ten thousand friends and lovers
	A black day in December.
	Mermaid sits on a tide washed rock in the harbour
	where the Blue Heron would lay
	Everyday sun or rain
	old friends fall to the earth and decay
	With the city by the sea
	Sweet brine in the breeze
	And the mountains watching over her Vancouver
	A black day in December