Ship of Death

Far from sheltered harbor sails

A ship with silence at its rails

By dark it roams and day it moors

Through murky seas it nightly tours

The captain lone stands at the helm

A crew of one in deathly realm

He nightly screams in tortured mind

For distant treasure he cannot find

For once as man he sailed the seas

But greed then brought him to his knees

Once he had a softened heart

Before cruel gold tore it apart

Born in muck in a harbor town

Near grimy ships and waters brown

He sailed the sea while still a boy

And sought adventure for his joy.

A lass he loved there by the sea

Man and wife they hoped to be

But one more voyage he embarked

And he for death that day was marked

The seas were high that winter long

When from right he turned to wrong

For gold had caught his roving eye

And made him cheat and steal and lie

Shimmer of coin instead of sun

Had in his heart completely won

So cursed he was to still sail toward

Deadly adventure with no reward

And moon is now his only light

As by the day he must take flight

For gold he loved, so gold he got

And by the sun he’s never caught