Disclaimer: Of the people mentioned in this poem, none of them are mine. Much as I might like for the captain to be mine, he's not, and I'll return him to those who do own him in much the same shape I borrowed him in.
Author's Note: Please send reviews to my e-mail: captainisabellaraven@yahoo.com. Thanks!
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I Won't Wait For Any Man
The sea's a harsh mistress
A ship a captain's first love
But where upon the sea swell
Does a man find his heart?
I watch you as you whistle
As you sail, as you sleep
Yet do you ever notice I exist
But when you're too drunk to care?
Come, my captain, can't you see
The woman in front of your eyes?
Or do I simply demand your debt
And leave you to see me too late?
I won't wait forever, certainly
I won't wait much longer, I can't
I want you, or my own ship, and now
I'm not a patient woman, you see.
But you don't notice
You always are looking to the sea
Looking to the wide horizon
But never in front of your eyes.
Goodbye, Captain Sparrow,
I wish you and your lover well
Give me back my mistress the sea
My lover, my ship beneath my feet
I am a pirate, and a woman, both
I bow to no man, but share with him
If he but sees the deal I offer
And you did not, Sparrow, savvy.
So I bid farewell and good luck
Safe juorney, and perhaps more
Maybe a woman to make you see
More than the far horizon of endless ocean.