Voyage
Shan, HanHow pitiful, people bobbing through life,
Adrift, scratching their days on the aimless prow.
Yet they call this business, substance, profession-
And ageless decades pass to oldest age.
All this they do to gorge the clothes they fill,
To sate their black, delusionary eyes.
A ghost ship carries them, stuffed with beasts,
And the sea-road whirls them hellward.
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