chapter 21 seawolves
Were they human? Were they kin?
Hacking, hewing, bones and skin
Engineered candescent rage
Robbers of a dying stage.
Ebbing of my confidence
In its stead a rage intense-
Notwithstanding this incaution's wage.
Liberty, eternity? Seawolves in fraternity?
I was never sane enough to ask...
Even as I saw the fearful masks...
Sabres swinging, shattered down my mast.
Truth in my adversity? Was it all the end of me?
Heroes of believing days gone by-
Echoed battles ended in a sigh...
Truth was now discerningly, encompassing the worst of me,
Rogues of thought impinged my memory;
Uttered curses hissed across the sea;
Traded blows- would murder set the fee?
Hazarding the tamarisk's decree?
Open to the enmity, of foreign pirates of the sea-
Fraught with blood and thirsty in degree-
Even as I set my mind to dying; far from home, consigned
Nerve and failing body endless sleep-
My terror tore away from me
In dreadful pliability
To greet the rising monster of the deep...
Yawning maw my memory to keep-
Inken eyes that mesmerised, oh! let my story tell no lies-
Never let me swear to otherwise-
Lurking there from otherwhere,
I saw again the sea-nightmare...
Vanquish pirates to their doom
Engage the enemy; entomb...
Sinking then in waves of bloody spume.
Hacking, hewing, bones and skin
Engineered candescent rage
Robbers of a dying stage.
Ebbing of my confidence
In its stead a rage intense-
Notwithstanding this incaution's wage.
Liberty, eternity? Seawolves in fraternity?
I was never sane enough to ask...
Even as I saw the fearful masks...
Sabres swinging, shattered down my mast.
Truth in my adversity? Was it all the end of me?
Heroes of believing days gone by-
Echoed battles ended in a sigh...
Truth was now discerningly, encompassing the worst of me,
Rogues of thought impinged my memory;
Uttered curses hissed across the sea;
Traded blows- would murder set the fee?
Hazarding the tamarisk's decree?
Open to the enmity, of foreign pirates of the sea-
Fraught with blood and thirsty in degree-
Even as I set my mind to dying; far from home, consigned
Nerve and failing body endless sleep-
My terror tore away from me
In dreadful pliability
To greet the rising monster of the deep...
Yawning maw my memory to keep-
Inken eyes that mesmerised, oh! let my story tell no lies-
Never let me swear to otherwise-
Lurking there from otherwhere,
I saw again the sea-nightmare...
Vanquish pirates to their doom
Engage the enemy; entomb...
Sinking then in waves of bloody spume.