Shades of Blue 1: The Last Loot

Beneath an ocean of blue silence, he sits
a skeleton pirate draped in yesterday’s glory.
His chest spills not gold, but the dust of forgotten dreams,
each fragment a whisper from the life he stole.

He grins through the hollow rhythm of time,
a monarch of nothing, guarding everything he’s lost.
No waves call his name, no stars recall his path
only the hush of eternity hums his victory’s dirge.

And there he remains, unburdened yet bound,
the echo of his laughter tangled with the wind
a man who conquered the world,
only to find his treasure was the void.