Don't blame me. BLAME MY ADVANCED COMP TEACHER. She said write a poem about 'eternity' and of course I thought, Pirates. Which may or may not be weird on some level. Got an 'A' on this poem, though, so I figured I would upload it here.
Time creeps away
While it races past
And always the constant
Stream of people
The dead
With places to go
Old faces to greet them
Where will he go?
Who is left to greet him?
Once there was someone
Then
In the dim days
Far beyond his memory
A woman
She was beautiful
And he had loved her
Has loved her
Will always love her
Sometimes
He wonders if she waited
In passing
But he forgets
If she had
Because this too is only
A memory
Life
Hope
Love
Forgotten
Lost
Then She appears
Not the dim creature of memory
But the One
Come to free him
As She has before
She says You are free to go, Captain
And it frightens him
The freedom
But the dimly recalled face is there
Before his eyes
And he aches with longing
The flash--green as grass
The sand is warm and bright
Light sears his eyes
While it burns away the veil
Of forgetting
And he remembers
Collapsing to his knees on the sand
He looks at the cold stone
And knows she is gone
Has been gone
For years
The sand loses its warmth
The sun is less bright
Without her
He is empty
Inside he knows
He will forget
And come again
To find her gone
Again
Forever beyond him
To endure this agony
Again
Of a broken heart
Buried in the sand
With her
It has happened before
Because he can remember it
And idly he wonders how many times a heart can break
Before the damage is irreparable
He turns his back
He walks
Into the water
To return again
In ten years.
Yeah...the idea of this poem is that time is really flexible between worlds, so the Dutchman's captain (Will) kind of loses himself in the process of ferrying souls. He was supposed to come back and the initial idea is that he sees something our-time modern and realizes that there's nothing left for him.
WEIRD, I know, but I got full marks so my joyness had to be shared. ;p