EVER AFTER

Ever After

Seafarers shall be saved, though waves may

deem them dead, lost in the ocean's fray

they shall not perish, nor shall they be afraid

nor falter, though their earthly woes be done.


and win release to heaven's blessed throne.

They shall tame the deep, brave the mighty Charybdis*

they shall enjoy the fruits their earthly span denied
Nor shall the poor be stilled in death's dark tomb
and reap full harvest as they rule the Pleiades!**

for they will revel with the wild Eumenides!***
The lame will mark their years well spent
in painful suffering at the world's behest,

The realm of death is nothing to be feared,

the special blessing of the ones who heed the call,
though sting of loss shall curdle in the breasts
of the deserted they will finally comprehend

** Pleiades  an open star cluster among those closest to Earth.



Copyright © Keith Bickerstaffe | Year Posted 2016

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