Terza Rima: A Captain's End
Here my ship has run aground
My crew is dead
Not a soul around
Soon I shall lose my head
Oh, what an atrocity
Who will lead in my stead?
This is a catastrophe
The Andromeda doomed
And here, I too, will die of atrophy
The end is here; here it looms
Like the calm before the storm
And here I sit upon my bow just before the noon
I'll ask that you not mourn
No one will know I'm gone
I have not even a wife to be distraught much less forlorn
And as I see the dawn
As it crashes over me
Towards it I become drawn
To rest in blissful eternity
