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A Blackbonnet Poem

In another life,

We would never have met.

I, Edward Teach,

Born on a beach,

Would have stayed

Untouched

By Stede Bonnet

I wonder

Would it have been better?

My head says no

My heart says yes

And then they trade opinions

In this life we have met

I have touched my foot to yours

Your hand has held the weight of my head

Our lips have met in long overdue

Confession

I wear fine things well, you told me

And forgave me for my backstabbing plans

We had fun together, you and I

Co-captains, such a rarity, but it worked

With you

I loved you

I love you

And you

Left

Did I really make you happy?

In yet another life,

I’d have killed you on sight

With no need to keep you alive.

Or I would have done it when I should have

A jab through the right,

Hitting all the important bits.

I would never have taught you otherwise.

Or a knife between the ribs to make it quick,

If I still had waited too long.

But I would have killed you

In this other life

Stede Bonnet would have laid dead at my feet

And I could have felt nothing

God, to feel nothing.

I do not like the Blackbeard of that life

He is more Kraken than Edward,

More beast than man,

More legend than reality.

But he would never have been hurt by you

Fallen for you

Crumbled for you.

To think a gentleman, the Gentleman Pirate,

Could damage me so badly

It was an honor to be damaged by you

To be swallowed

Whole

By happiness.

I will become the Kraken

If only to protect myself

Protect the heart I wish I didn’t have.

I will be him

Because he

has never

loved you

And lost you

And lost