Drabbles: Odds and Ends

A Pirate of Umbar

He sang to the sea.
He sang to the wind.
He was a sailor out of Umbar, singing to the sea and listening to the wind.

Aiaiaiaiai… his girl was so pretty …
Aiaiaiaiai… the gods smiled at him …
Aiaiaiaiai… they would see him safely home …

Across the sea,
across the wide, wide sea …

Aiaiaiaiai… so he could drown in her beauty …
Aiaiaiaiai… so he would not drown in the sea …
Aiaiaiaiai… so he could tell her –

So he could tell her –
Tell her –

That wherever he’d been –
There had never been –

No girl prettier than she –

And then he drowned.

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