26 Sep: "The Hollow Men" part 4

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                      IV

    The eyes are not here
    There are no eyes here
    In this valley of dying stars
    In this hollow valley
    This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
    
    In this last of meeting places
    We grope together
    And avoid speech
    Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
    
    Sightless, unless
    The eyes reappear
    As the perpetual star
    Multifoliate rose
    Of death's twilight kingdom
    The hope only
    Of empty men.

2 comments:

  1. Allie Jo DreadfulwaterOctober 2, 2016 at 8:05 PM

    "There are no eyes here"- there is no god here?
    Hopelessness...but yet bound together inside of it. If all will die, then all will die together. In this train of thought the reappearing eye sounds like a darker side..."of death's twilight kingdom"...the devil will then claim them if god leaves them?

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  2. JimboOctober 9, 2016 at 5:29 AM

    Hopelessness. The last meeting place.

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