chapter 22 eye to eye
Castaway on ancient seas, my land of weird event;
Reversing inequalities; my hopeful luck was spent,
Even as I lay supine on danger's shattered deck-
All I could see was carnage-bred; dead pirates and a wreck.
Toward the monster from below I felt ambivalent,
Eye to eye morality... salvation; was it meant?
Dazed, I dredged within my mind, with memory, full-pent.
Eye to eye with inken gaze I pondered certain fate,
Yonder, saw volcanic spew, but deemed its advent late,
Eye to eye with graven death... yet not, I felt, with hate.
To die alone beneath the skies of strangely staring light
Oh loneliest of Journeymen, ambivalence despite.
Eerie, eerie, came a sigh, that drifting phrase of time...
Yonder, reared a rose of flame, of sparks above the brine...
Eye to eye with deities, of this world... not of mine.
Reversing inequalities; my hopeful luck was spent,
Even as I lay supine on danger's shattered deck-
All I could see was carnage-bred; dead pirates and a wreck.
Toward the monster from below I felt ambivalent,
Eye to eye morality... salvation; was it meant?
Dazed, I dredged within my mind, with memory, full-pent.
Eye to eye with inken gaze I pondered certain fate,
Yonder, saw volcanic spew, but deemed its advent late,
Eye to eye with graven death... yet not, I felt, with hate.
To die alone beneath the skies of strangely staring light
Oh loneliest of Journeymen, ambivalence despite.
Eerie, eerie, came a sigh, that drifting phrase of time...
Yonder, reared a rose of flame, of sparks above the brine...
Eye to eye with deities, of this world... not of mine.