The vessel arrived into port Kindling to the spark of the eye Of the unkempt woman With teeth ready to be unleashed At first through a smile Spilling out words of sweetness into desires Tantalised by the flesh of the disembarking cullys Passing her side Knowing there was one to capture and take And there he was Spilling the darkest of ragged hair Holding curls of light and life He stopped and stood nearby Just long enough for her fragrance to be caught Breaking the seas salt air All he had grown to know Pulling his eyes to her curving sides Trailed with warm tressels of hair Caressing her chest And the bare skin of her neck His eyes of mahogany continued to the unguarded opening of her lips To that there vivid ember of her turquoise eyes The glow that captures Has him mesmerised Him, the next cully That hit the shore After days, nights, months a far Far from flesh and bone of a woman He caught his jaw with his hand And brought it back up with a breath With the attempt to hold a stature That of the man he supposedly is Him, the next cully, she was hungry to capture She offers a curl to the left of her lips And a nod that could be seen in a hundred and one ways One of politeness He so mannerly thinks One of passion and lust Is the one he does crave For it has been days, nights, months on water With only flames of fire glistening in the night sky Until now in the peak of summer He sees them all gathered in the changing tones of her sapphire eyes For here he is Her next cully Ready to be strong and damned as damned can be; weak As his mind of work and travel no longer speaks All his tongue craves is the taste of her breasts This woman before him, unknown To be undressed He came to this port with grains filling every chest Now all he can feel is the stir of his own All in a frenzy State of unrest There she is with her hand and calls For him to come closer Smell and taste the score He moves in with the drop of the tide And rise of the moon The sultry sight and sound His longing for darkness For her to take him To the place of nameless scenes; (well for him that is) To be formed in the warmth of dusk
And that is where she did take him Closing his eyes to hold the tours of flesh Wilder than the man lost at sea The pull of storms entwined in every tour and sin Crafted until the rising sun Where the crispness of dawn remained untouched By the heat of their lust They reeled and rolled Until the boat of the port called It was time for the cully to move from lover to man Leave the flesh in which he was wrapped As he the cully, the nameless travelling man Returned to the vessel and seas The taste of her flesh still on his lips His eyes holding the skin and curve of her hips With trails of her hair within his own For there he was had