Pearl's Ballad
AURORA MCKIE
She’s the very image of heaven,
Soft as a shimmering sea.
He’s the wind in her sails,
Through him, she feels free.
Her skin is draped in linen cloth,
His eyes affixed to her carved silhouette.
Her hair unfurls over her shoulders
As he entreats her to a carnal duet.
Yet as the sea is calm, so too the tempest grows.
For she is the Pearl hidden in the seabed,
And Caspian would do anything to have her.
So, on her finger he puts a ring of lead.
Her lustre fades as the veil is unravelled.
Zephyr calls upon the vessel,
Its starboard takes on water.
As she tries to run, the pair wrestle.
Glittering sword drawn from Scabbard form;
“Thou art mine, Pearl!”
Caspian’s eyes raging with the sea,
The storms wrath around the hilt, knuckles curl.
The gasp is carried through the waves,
And her eyes lose their shine.
She is one with the sea once more,
For what the ocean gives, it turns back into brine.