The Pirate With a Hook for a Heart John MacBeath Watkins copyright 2005 Twice Sold Tales, Seattle
There are pirates with a hook for a hand, I'm a pirate with a hook for a heart. A hook for a heart is hard, awkward and sharp and it's shiny and cruel to caress. It speaks of the cockpit, the blood and the sand, the surgeon, the saw, the severed part. A hook for a heart, a patch for an eye, a no for a yes, a sigh, a sigh, I see her look and I curse the hook and the peg for a soul and the nay for an aye a sigh, a sigh for battles won at such a cost for shattered hearts and souls we've lost, a patch for an aye, a sigh, a sigh.