The Seer And The Siren

Авторский комментарий:
«Провидец и сирена» -практически первая моя попытка сочинить произведение в повествовательной форме на классическую тему любви и трагедии. Скорее всего, мне следовало избрать для этого несколько иной формат - не так просто уложить выразительную мысль в восьми или девятисложную строчку.
Позже я исправлю этот недостаток в "The Pink And The Reaper"

            The Seer And Siren  31.08.01

"...Day possesses no key here
When moon sheds the cold twilight
This moment is eternity..."

Dedicated to all the departed graceful images

... solitude is the cocoon in space, surrounded by timelessness...

Epigraph:    ... I will die for the love of a mermaid
Her seduction beauty and scorn
Welcome to the end of your life
Hail the Oceanborn!*

                * Tuomas Holopainen

                1.
The land beneath the crimson skies
Lies blending with the ocean
It was created far from vice
To keep the ancient notion
                2.
The blue waves, meeting the dark shore,
Carelessly lave the mountains
And just the soaring ghosts of war
Remind about the fightings
                3.
How under the sanguine concave
That woke a human mettle,
The knights obtained their common grave
After the final battle
                4.
But still this dumpy twilight world's
The object of affection
For the forsaken man who holds
The sign of resurrection
                5.
Eternally he roved across
The hand-made demolition
And the nocturnal universe
Observed his sable mission
                6.
He often thought: "My love is dead...
So, rest in peace, my dear.
But God, how desperately sad
To be a nameless seer...
                7.
This life is dragging on too slow,
My hoary head is humming...
For what I was inhumed below
Depraved of the hope's coming ?"
                8.
He watched the stars of no reply
And at those doleful hours
He wished to ride the wind and fly
Up with the tameless powers
                9.
But nothing seemed to heal his pain
No chance of liberation
The purple sun sank to maintain
His gloomy contemplation
                10.
And when the storms arrived to cut
At his deserted islands,
The man hid in his low-built hut
And damned the nature's violence
                11.
But once the lightning's  raging stab
Broke it into the rubbles
Revealing to the light a stab -
Red-black, adorned with marble
                12.
That slab contained a magic spell -
The necromantic verses
He read them fancying very well -
They call the unknown forces...
                13.
Next morning, which was clear and fair,
The seer trod the mound
And saw a  blond girl prostrate there
Upon the ashen ground
                14.
He ran down and bent over her
To feel a weak heart-beating
But when she moved, the words he heard:
"It's not late for the meating?"
                15.
She opened her green eyes and said:
"Your sorrow is expiring
Don't be afraid, you are not mad
And I'm a gale-born siren
                16.
Your incantation crushed thr cage
Of my appalling prison
Now I belong to you, my  sage,
Relieve your haggard reason".
                17.
"I waited for a thousand years -
The seer answered slowly -
But in a throe the aeon sears,
We have one autumn only".
                18.
She stretches her arms and they embraced
He said: "I guess, my duty's
To tell you that I could not face
The decadence of beauty
                19.
For this sin we both shall be cursed
And surely doomed to perish
But the beliefs of mine are lost -
No virgin dream to cherish
                20.
And when they climbed the coastal cape,
The man declaimed: "Remember,
We got no future to escape,
Our past is turned to ember
                21.
I saw the things that should not be
Bereft of the compassion
But now let's seek the boundless sea
Delighting in our passion..."
                22.
And then behind the grassy cloth
They poured their lust to term it
Alone upon the weeping earth
The young belle and the hermit...
                23.
And eight weeks rushed , quick as the birds,
That always cried around,
The freedom cured the inner hurts
And drew to its profound...
                24.
The phantoms danced beside the hearth
At their ritual covens
And then they walked a winding path
Researching the rock-carvings...
                25.
But when the days of love were done,
The man said: "I'm conceiving
The thing which I will never shun -
My guardian angel's leaving..."
                26.
The siren screamed: "We can't restore
The Bygone - faint and frosted!...
Your love is all I'm craving for,
But your brain's too exhausted
                27.
The destiny is like a string
And lounging's like a candle
There's no point for the strength within
If nothing left to handle
                28.
I do not want the tears to slide
For Truth that is departed,
If you will reach the other side,
Our ways shall not be parted..."
                29.
And when the coldness veiled the cliffs,
It sent no time to falter
The sentenced lovers ceased to breath
And their blood stained the altar
                30.
Ascending to the sacred grows,
Two souls obtained Devotion
They're gone for good but no one knows
Whose voices haunt the ocean...