LazerLordz SG An Appointment With Eternity Your eyes meet mine In a place where Language keeps a mistress To bear false tongues And paid witnesses. you look beyond me But there are parts of me Even well-paid spies Could not even swim In decadence. The captain smiles faraway As he fondles the trigger "A smoke?" "Why not?" I threw him a salute And the seas of the Med Engulf me. I saw the ages And Granny Smith Fall like toys Strewn in haste. I meet you In a grove. Of olive husks and a rusty sky And we embrace With eyes aglow In a purifying blindness
DeadPoet SG May I know what is the second strophe about? I've read this poem a few times but still not sure what is the role of the captain in the poem. By the way, like the first and third strophes.
LazerLordz SG I placed the Captain's role as a person who chooses the fate of the poet, as a commander and also as a man of honor, who wearily takes on the duty of ending the poet's life.
