Ballad of the sea

There was a young man who left all for the sea.

Upon her back he longed to ride, making his fortune, proving his bravery.

On the morn he was sworn to embark

He kissed his sweetheart tenderly and asked her not to cry,

He promised her a wedding ring when cresting the waves his ship she did espy

When the ship left port she sailed proud, strong, and free.

All the sailors, officers and crew, stood silent and brave;

daring the fierce ocean to defy them

Believing in their man-of-war’s sovereign immutability

Manned by the willing sailors the ship fought bravely in war

Two long years she defended her home shores,

Ensuring her tranquility.

The sea watched the sailor boy and loved him as none ever could

The sea claims those she loves forever to her stilling depths.

She will never release her loved ones until all the stars have fallen from the sky.

Our sailor boy survived all gun wounds and deadly splinters from shattered hull.

Distinguished himself and forged for himself a name respected across her forbidding waves

He always claimed he was fighting for his sweetheart

He had a ring for her, he wad waited two long years to make of her his bride.

The sea was abysmally jealous and swore she would never let him lie

in any loving bosom save her dark depths

never ending, forever stretching wide.

When at last the sea was forced to let her brave mariner lad go to shore

he humbled himself on bended knee to the queen of his soul.

But alas! His ring was proceeded by another,

his sweetheart of old no longer his to claim.

He had fought in vain, pursuing the very queen of vanity.

Broken hearted and listless he returned into the cold back of the sea.

Her fierce arms tried to comfort him,

She picked him up in a terrible storm and held him to her icy breast.

Kissed him with her terrible lips and drowned him

Knowing only by stilling his heart could she give him rest.

As the listless sailor became one with the waves he knew…

That the sea had been his love since the beginning,

He left all for her and had become great in her hands,

Why should he leave her now?

So he closed his eyes and rested there in her arms, still and cold forever more.