The Tragic Tale of The Bitterman Sisters

 

TO GET IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT I’ve created something special for you.  This is the tragic tale of the Bitterman sisters, two young girls who met an untimely end.  Enjoy, my dears, enjoy.

 

The Tragic Tale of The Bitterman Sisters

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HAVE YOU HEARD THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE BITTERMAN SISTERS?
It’s almost too sad to repeat.
Those poor, poor girls so sad and alone
were lost to the briny deep.

The year was eighteen ninety.
The girls a mere five and seven.
Their family’s boat, the S.S. Devote,
was transporting some peppers to Devon.

The Captain and first mate regaled them
with tales of huge beasts from the deep.
The eldest sat there enthralled as the little one bawled
and the crew dared not make a peep.

Then out of nowhere came a creek, thud and BANG!
The boat lurched as the crew sprang to their feet.
The first mate snatched the girls right up by their curls
into the lifeboat he put them tout de suite.

The lifeboat fell SPLASH! to the water.
The girls held each other and cried.
The ship quickly went down as every man drown.
The girls lived while all the rest died.

Adrift in the sea they were frightened
as they recalled the tales they’d been told.
As the little girls sobbed the boat danced and bobbed
and the commotion awoke something old.

The ancient beast sent its tentacles skyward
and stealthily found its prey.
The girls, fraught with despair, were caught unaware.
From the beast’s grip they could not break away.

Into the dark depths he dragged them.
Their struggling stopped as did their breath.
They would never be saved from their watery grave.
Their lifeboat is all that was left.

That is the tale of the Bitterman sisters.
It’s a tale of tragedy and woe.
Some still hear them cry as their boat passes by
where they lost their lives so long ago.

 

Kisses & Chaos,
Alli Woods Frederick

 

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