Sally of the Silent Lake

[Verse 1] They say the lake is calm and wide, With silver mist that hugs its tide. But when the moon is full and high, A shadow swims where secrets lie. Some swear they saw a serpentine gleam, A ripple that broke their quiet dream. [Chorus] Sally, oh Sally, the silent one, Born of storm and swallowed sun. She’ll rise when no one dares to seek, Then vanish fast into the deep. A whisper lost in water’s breath— A living myth that cheats her death. [Verse 2] The Skipper says he saw her tail, Long as a boat with silver scale. She blinked one eye, then took her leave, Beneath the waves like fading dreams. The townsfolk laugh, but watch the shore, For fear she might come back for more. [Verse 3] Some say she’s drawn to pain and woe, To magic’s surge and underflow. That something ancient stirs her mind, When realms of man and fae align. A guardian? A beast? A ghost? No scholar dares to get too close. [Chorus] Sally, oh Sally, of lake so wide, With haunted depths you choose to hide. You glide through myth, you slip through time, A riddle wrapped in cold and brine. No cage could hold your watery fate— You are the whisper of the lake. [Bridge] So toss a stone, and make a wish, But don’t go near that broken dish Where once the lakebed cracked and moaned, And something vast beneath it groaned... [Verse 4] For Sally sees but does not speak, She watches from her twilight keep. And though she’s feared, some still believe— She’s Croatoa’s heart beneath the leaves. [Final Chorus] Sally, oh Sally, dreamer deep, You swim through legend’s restless sleep. One day you’ll rise, and all will know, The truth that hides in Croatoa.