Friday, August 14, 2009

Canto 10: speaking to a heretic, walking to the abyss

We walk through the tombs
Open and burning, Dis cries
Judgement will shut them

Un-answered Questions
Epicurian Graveyard
My mind is troubled

A voice from the graves
Hey Florentine, what's your name?
Says Farinata.

As we exchange jabs
A soul asks about his son
I fail to answer

He cries in mourning
Farinata ignores this
"Your party will fall"

I ask a question:
Why can't you see the present?
Because it's God's Will

We see the future,
It's like being far sighted
but with time, not space

I ask forgiveness
Of the shade who weeps below,
His son is alive

Who else is in there?
An Emperor, a Cardinal
and thousands more souls.

I follow Virgil
Our path crests a high valley
The smell... deafening.

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