This is a poem from the perspective Ariel Taldin. She is the wife of the Sylyeras Morningfall Taldin, a PC in my Tri-Panthonic War campaign. She is currently a Pirate Lord, and this is an account of her past, expressed in poetry.
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The seas are a comfort
They rock one to sleep
The seas are a path
They lead one to freedom
The seas are a danger
They hold one’s greatest fears
I sail because I like the smell of salt water
More than the smell of corpses rotting
In labyrinths of alleyways - burnt up in acid
Their orphans begging for anything to stay fed
Anything to forget the fact that they were orphans
I had been an orphan - an orphan
Of the acid-burnt corpses in an alley
I sail because I never want to stay in the arms
Of the men on land, who only dig their nails in
And they call me a doll.
They always want to keep a free woman.
But the men of the sea know women are free
And the women know how to fight
No one’s an orphan on the sea
On the sea, there are two types of people:
Those who are running away from captivity
And those who are flying towards something selfish
On the land, you only run
On the sea, you have the choice to swim
Or even to fly
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