On Blackbeard’s Island

Wooden shelves with musty books

Tales of ships with silver sails

Pirate kings with swords and hooks
Tossed and torn in ancient gales

Free me from this modern scene
Cast me to the churning sea
Water, brown and algae, green
Drown the fires that rage in me

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