Into The Blue

“For God's sake look after our people.” Robert Falcon Scott 1912, Antarctica.

"We came to fight, not to surrender." Lawrence 'Titus' Oates 1902, South Africa.

"I am just going outside and may be some time." Lawrence ‘Titus’ Oates 1902, Antarctica.

It is so white, a blue-ish desert;

home of the burning cold.

Inside the canvas

it is merely freezing

the marrow until

our bones split.

I will not end as Evans did,

as a glacial blue

waterfall's footnote.

Did we come so far

to falter on

this wasting land?

It is time, I will take a mad march

into the cerulean blue.

Outside the canvas

I am merely freezing

my sacrifice

into history.