BROTHERHOOD by Octavio Paz/WBCHSE/CLASS11

 

Homage to Claudius Ptolemy

I am a man: little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.

WORDS	MEANINGS
homage	tribute
Claudius Ptolemy	A Mathematician, an astronomer, Philosopher…100 AD,Egypt
enormous	Extremely large
last	existence
Unknowing	unaware
understand	realise
very moment	At the present time
spells	Tells, explains