Elizabeth, darling, why
not awake,
on this blessed morning so drear?
Your marrige is
planned on this same day,
And the sun inches, oh! ever near.
Leave me for a moment, she said quietly,
Brushing her
hair with a comb,
Like a gay dolly, I will share the folly,
But
now I bid you leave me alone.
The door shut with a click,
the clock above ticked,
And tears fell from Lizzie's face,
for the sad, cruel truth,
slapped her as a brute,
to wish
of that pirate's embrace.
A journey had taken them from Port
Royal lense:
Over mountains and seas, she had lept,
But
finding her ends, not meeting nor mends,
found she could not take
'nother step.
For the tether, that bound her, from birth and
beyond,
That truth, she had lay aside,
until with a song, she
was in the wrong,
And found that her hands had been tied.
Now,
her duty lied, her last lady trace,
her reputation already
shredded and tore,
And no more space, for a tear on her face,
She heard a knock at the door.
With an open, she gasped,
her eyes opened wide,
And she soon nearly fell with tipsy,
For
the glint of the blide, on the ol' cap'n's side,
A dream covered
with squals of whiskey.
Could it be? Was it not, that old
Captain Jack,
who had left her alone on the hill?
That man
who was cracked, who's face had been smacked,
from rude comment,
or crude ugly shrill?
Lizzie, dear lizzie, he said with a
grin,
his teeth glinting in the morn's sun,
it has been a
sin, to be a captain,
without a lass onboard to run.
He
offered her glass, and diamonds and jewels,
and faraway treasures
beyond,
But her air was cool, she called him a fool,
And put
the ivory wedding dress on.
Looking in the mirror, she
receded with vain,
Her face perfect in the rayful attack,
then,
her face strained, and as if in the rain,
she saw a tear fall
from old cap'n jack.
Not thinking at all, she flew to his
face,
his aura a dream and a myth,
And with no lip space,
came a perfect embrace,
with sadness, she pulled away stiff.
My
darling, my brother, my lover and friend,
how I have drept such
of you!
My love to send, until the very end,
I swear it, I
shall always love you.
Then run away, Lizzie! He said very
mild,
The sea, like you dear, telleth true,
To you I concile,
You're free, and you're wild!
And no man could ever tame you.
Elizabeth smiled, her face distant with dream,
of all
the things she had known.
And as it would seem, she smiled at he,
and said with a longing love,
No.
My duty is here,
forever I know,
whether I love Will or not,
I have run so,
but I cannot let go,
of the man that hath saved me from rot.
So, run with your strumpets, boast freely proud,
of your
success and your wonderful leer,
But I, a stray cloud, pours on
you loud,
remember, I saw that stray tear.
He pulled her
to him, and kissed her with anger,
you must run away, you must
flee,
And, as a stranger, her lips on him linger,
A tear fell
from her rosy cheek.
For she smiled so distant, Jack was
Transfestered,
And asked her what she had surdered,
Then with
a simple gesture, came a sobering glister,
Lo! She wore a ring of
day old Mrs. Turner!