~~Carnival

  when the night falls down on the island paradise

Tales of the supernatural come to life at carnival   

 While the masses gather for the fete, of liberation

  A sweet blooded Carib Queen from ancient times
 Stirs the murky Sargasso Sea (it is said) 
The blood of mortal men  eases her misery 
and she leaves no footprints on the sand;
  strolling free and easy tan and comely 
 Boys with bulging eyes and excited voices 
 Tell how she looks sweet as a moonbeam;
  Searching for seashells, always glancing up
 and thirsty for the salty blood of living men
.   
One man shares his story for the tourists;
 rum sprays from his breath as he speaks;       
 'many screaming women, came from her lips; 
 And a cool wind took her wild raven hair to flight 
  as the stars fell like a thousand feathers                                      when we made love'
    
 he lifts his shirt, declaring his numberless scares
‘She had a hallow smile with far away ‘Jumbie eyes’’ 
 And the waves lapped whenever she cried out;  
Don’t walk alone in the nights of Carnival
Unless you want her to  sting you with bites' 
Then the falling coins clash staccato in his tin can
 Though his thoughts were lost on the Carib Queen