The Giant - AHAB

Steering southwards

Tsalal we flee

Into shady

Towards the polar sea

Falling prey to the grotesque

Falling prey to absurdity

Blurring layers of gray

We scend through scales of white

Monochrome perpetuity

We scend through time and tide

Of truth we can’t catch sight

A tale too dark to light

Of blackness, of intensity

Of obscurity and glare

Of gloominess and brilliancy

Ob somberness and gleam

Of murkiness and luminance

Of ashes soil the snow

Silver blood pours from wounded skies

Drowning our anxiety

Black man, white beast in dismay cries

Phantasmagoric me

Vaporise in sheer reality

In blackness, in intensity

In obscurity and glare

In gloominess, in brilliancy

In somberness and gleam

In murkiness and luminance

In ashes soil the snow

I hear thee chant my name

Faint voice distant and dim

I prithee, please enfold me

Colossus pale and grim

I reach you from Nantucket

I’m Arthur Gordon Pym!

I’m Arthur Gordon Pym!