the Pirate and the Faerie Queen

The odd yet sentimental story of a glitter-winged faerie and an ex-convict pirate.

Seeing the way he looks at her,

The Faerie Queen,

Eyes ablaze with fury

And gentle devotion,

Fills my heart with emotions

I didn’t know existed.

She found the Pirate in prison

In a faraway land,

His wrists scarred from years of

The consequences of his own wrongdoing.

The Faerie Queen met him

At a stable nearby where he worked endlessly

For an unobtainably lesser sentence

With heavy chains

Around his ankles.

She noticed the strange writing on his fingers,

The same that decorated his arms,

And was transfixed with curiosity

About this man who was obviously

Very dangerous

But very good with horses.

So she paid his fines and persuaded the judge

To let him serve a different kind of life sentence;

Marriage.

They were wed on a winter afternoon

By the sea.

She looked so happy that the Royal Fae Family even

Let it slide the fact that she was

Marrying a human.

Later that evening,

She placed her hands in his

For the first time, and the Pirate

Found out what happens when you are

Touched by something so blessed

And pure.

All of the years of crime and the hurt he caused

Washed over him in one great wave.

The pain in his soul was excruciating;

He wished to die right then and there.

But the Faerie Queen knew that would happen.

It was finally his heart’s repentance.

The years that followed were full of

Sailing and wandering the world over;

He taught her the ocean’s ways

And she told him of the forest’s secrets.

So when you see them sitting by an old evergreen

Some fair winter day,

The Pirate holding his sleeping Faerie Queen

With her gossamer wings wrapped around him,

You’ll know that true love lives forever

In the hearts of those forgiven.