The Pirate's Love

Out on the shore he looked away,
drawn by the ocean's crashing waves;
out on the shore her heart it broke,
as she watched him stop to smoke.

They knew that ties of love would sever,
that he would go away forever;
ne’er to return to this shore,
ne’er to see her, his love, anymore.

And so the sloop the pirate boarded,
where all his treasure he had hoarded;
away he sailed to far new lands,
to take from others with his hands.

Though he seemed so heartless and cruel,
even he had loved a girl;
and on a shore so far away,
they hanged the pirate there today.

She heard the news,her heart it wept,
and so she plunged into the depth;
her body found broken and maimed,
death the choice she had claimed.

By Sena Slaughter