It is minotaur tradition to create a song for the one you would court, or take as lifemate. Blackavar is like Derettahs, in that he's an oddity. Rather than go into why he's different, I'll just explain the circumstance. This, like Derettahs' Plea, was made for roleplay, and used in it. He didn't create this before he and Nerissa, a human, became mates, but after, actually in response to a festival that Nerissa celebrates, the Festival of Mabon. She told him a part of it was singing or offering poems, and told him hers. As a surprise, he created this cant, and offered it during the Festival after her own.

Blackavar's Cant

Ancestors I never had,
Ancestors I never knew, hear me.
I have never sung, but I sing now.
You spirits of this world, turn your attention,
for a brief moment.
Please.

I ask, motherless as I am,
I ask, fatherless as I remain,
for those who would watch over.
Does any look on me, as I wish they did,
look too on her.
Please.

She is all the stars above,
she is all the earth below.
My mate, sea-born and ocean-eyed,
with the night in her hair, foam on her skin,
and strength in her soul.
Please.

Her heart is greater than mine,
her heart is the equal of any.
My mate, human in all ways,
my honor, and honoring us, courageous as storm,
and storm-tossed.
Please.

You who would watch, Ancestors,
You who would guard, spirits,
extend your protection and touch her.
Touch what we have made, together, my only soul,
and I.
Please.

Know her name.
Know the Unknown.
Know me.

Please.