The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men a penny for the old guy we are the Hollow Men We Are The Stuffed men leaning together headpiece filled with straw alas our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats feet over broken glass in our dry Cellar shape without form shade without color paralyzed Force gesture without motion those who have crossed with direct eyes to death's other Kingdom remember us if at all not as lost violent Souls but only as the Hollow Men the stuffed man eyes I dare not meet in dreams in death's dream Kingdom these do not appear there the eyes are sunlight on a broken column there is a tree swinging and voices are in the wind singing more distant and more solemn than a fading star let me be no nearer in death's dream Kingdom let me also wear such deliberate disguises rat's coat Crow skin crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves no nearer not that final meeting in the Twilight Kingdom this is the Dead Land This is capus land here the stone images are raised here they receive the supplication of a dead man's hand under the twile of a fading star is it like this in death's other Kingdom waking alone at the hour when we are trembling with tenderness lips that would kiss form prayers to Broken [Music] Stone the eyes are not here there are no eyes here in this Valley of dying stars in this hollow Valley this broken jaw of our lost [Music] Kingdoms in this last of meeting places we grope together and avoid speech gathered on this beach of the tunic River sightless unless the eyes reappear here as the Perpetual star multifoliate rose of death's Twilight Kingdom The Hope only of empty men here we go around the prickly pair prickly prickly here we go around the prickly pair at 5:00 in the morning between the idea and the reality between the motion and the ACT Falls the shadow for thine is the kingdom between the conception and the creation between the emotion and the response Falls the shadow life is very [Music] long between the desire and the spasm between the potency and the existence between the essence and The Descent Falls the shadow for thine is the kingdom for thine is life is for thine is thee this is the way the world ends this is the way the world ends this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper

Channel: Torchborne Screens

Views: 91,028

Keywords: The Hollow Men (Poem)

Id: eKOYoYy4vBE

Length: 4min 56sec (296 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 29 2015