Tom Clark

Final Farewell

Great moment in Blade Runner where Roy 
Batty is expiring, and talks 
about how everything 
he's seen will die with him — 
ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, 
sea-beams glittering before 
the Tannhauser Gates. 

Memory is like molten gold 
burning its way through the skin 
it stops there. 
There is no transfer. 
Nothing I have seen 
will be remembered 
beyond me. 
That merciful cleaning 
of the windows of creation 
will be an excellent thing 
my interests notwithstanding. 

But then again I've never been 
near Orion, or the Tannhauser 
gates, 

I've only been here.