Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha - Galleon

The ghost ship glides through coastal fog
A ghastly hand scrawls in the log
Have pity on us, please
High scraps of sail hang torn to shreds
And rigging rots, the ropes in threads
On flat and windless seas
And wet weeds clamber up the wreck
And crabs crawl cruel across the deck
Legs bent like broken knees
The air is bad, the silence worse
No shanty sung nor sailor's curse
Since thirst and since disease
Skeleton crew, it's truly that
The bare-boned captain, men and cat
Might shake like rattled keys
But treasure glitters in the hold
And greed goes gladly after gold
To trap men by degrees
So, hooked by hoard and its reward
The ship finds more to lure aboard
Like mice pursuing cheese
But once they're there, they have to stay
With no way off, they waste away
Or in the cold fog freeze
Thus this galleon slowly goes
On one vast voyage no human chose
And years pass like a breeze

Written by:
Nick Toczek

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