"Yarrr me hearty", I said, grabbing the girl by her waist and pulling her tight like a bosun's knot, "ye know I loves ya, but we cannot be!"
"But why?" she whispered, her nose almost touching mine and her breasts pressed against me like a couple of soft coconuts.
"Ye know why me darlin', because of tha rules!"
"The rules?", she cried, "What do you mean the rules?" She looked divine, like a lone mermaid glistening in the sun.
"Tha rules! Tha cursed rules!"
"But the rules are there my love! There to be followed!"
"And there be tha problem me sweetheart, there be tha problem! I used t' believe in tha rules, I didn't have a choice! If I let tha wind take 'em like so many of me hats over tha years then it woulda taken me as well! But now, I cannot respect 'em, tha rules are a farce!"
"A farce, what do you mean my love? I don’t understand!"
"Tha rules don't mean a thing no more! They used t' be simple, like tha tides! They came n they went n never did they try n guide tha sand! But now? Now they cannot leave it alone, they're a sham! There's no freedom no more! There's no hope for tha rules no more! There is no hope for US!"
"But we need each other! You and I, we cannot exist apart!"
Her sirens call echoed in the caverns of my heart as I pulled myself free of her grasp, turned and walked away. It wasn't that I didn't love her, I did, but the powers that be would never let our love be free, be itself. They would keep taking and taking, taking away any choice that remained for us until we were nothing but a charade. In a weak bid to keep life interesting they were taking away everything that made life what it was, every option, every freedom.
"Goodbye me love", I shouted back as I pulled myself up aboard my ship and took one last look at her standing on the dock, alone and desperate like a lone palm tree on the horizon. "When there is freedom again, I will be back for ye' n we will live n love n laugh again!" I turned my back one last time and headed, teary eyed towards a new sun.