Why I think I'm so crazy about you.

A psychic told me
that I was a mutineer on  
a pirate ship in a previous life,
 
So I did some research and found out
that pirate captains used to punish mutineers
by obtaining two ropes,
leading one under the ship and
tied the rope, one
to the feet and the other to their hands
and drag them along the bottom
of the hull, letting the hard
barnacles cut and slice against
their bodies and if they
were really lucky,the ropes would get  
tangled amongst them and the
mutineer would drown.
 
Sometimes after using the body
like ship dental floss
they'd let go of the ropes
and drift away as the mutineers gashed out body
too weak to swim takes in
mouthfuls of briny water
as he slowly sinks
to the sea floor
 
She also said
that the pain I experienced
in that previous life
I have experienced in this
 
And I thought
 
She's right, because
relationships are kind of like that,
 
You get tangled up in life
and you drown your relationship
or you cut and slice yourself
bleed out your affections
and drain out whatever
essence you have left
until your nothing
but some claret
stain on paper
to them
Or, they put
you through some
tedious trail that
obliterates all hope
of coming out unscathed  
but somehow retaining  
some little speckle of
majesty that your, this, us  
will make it
 
just to sink to the sea floor
as you drown abandoned  
 
She also said
that before that
I was a shingleback lizard
 
So again, I did my research
and they say
the bond between Tiliqua rugosa
is so great that even after separating,
when the offspring leave,
travelling possible hundreds of miles away
maybe even sleeping under different stars
they will still find each other
before the next mating season
and the next and the next,
until one of them dies and
the other still visits
where they first met.
 
 
the term they use in animal biology
for monogamous relationships
in the animal kingdom  
is called a life long pair bond
 
I can't think of a better
creature that
understands the connection
between love and life
than the Tiliqua rugosa
 
and I understand why
even on some quantum memory
link level, like memory
link on pokemon
that my previous,
simple minded skink
could never subconsciously
get over my other
simple minded skink lover
until this life,
where I could finally
meet you again,
 
So pull up a chair
or leave for England
because i know
with a stupid lizard
bond like ours,
this time next year
we'll still have never
felt the pain that
was once felt
by my mutineer self.