A Sailor's Suicide

 A Sailor's Suicide  (Santiago, Chile)

The Pump man, 

       didn’t take to shore the cargo,
he never came back from Santiago.

The sailors 

           started heaving the lines,*                      *mooring lines
they had the loss in their minds.

Santiago, 

          the port where all began,
and the vessel 

       sailed without a Pump man. 

It was believed he had an affair
and could not withstand 

                     that she didn’t care.


* Extract from "The Broken Mooring Line", an autobiographical poetic work 
by Odysseas Heavilayias.  /  page c31/  e-mail:  od.heavilayias@yahoo.com  /   
text editting: k.mataraga  / text adaptation: Kellene G. Safis

source

 Utopia