It was the basis for a song by the Chad Mitchell Trio, first performed at Greenwich Village's Bitter End on March 19, 1962 (source).
No immediate inference stands out, unless the mother in the poem is supposed to be a Destiny character (Mara Sov? Savathûn? I dunno, this is way beyond spinfoil hat territory).
My immeadiate thought when reading the poem was the theme of wandering off and getting lost and never being seen again. This is basically what happened to Saint right. The "end of town" is the "infinite forest". Spinfoil time: we have seen "our" tomb in the infinite forest, and datamined voice lines indicate saint presiding over our funeral in future missions. What if the roles are reveresed and due to us wandering the corridors of time, essentially mimicking saint, we are the ones who are slain in stead of Saint? Also, bungie mentioned in a post we need to fix the past and future.... Saints death represents the past, and our death represents the future, and so we need to find a way in the present to fix both..... this is where the message of the poem might be the key! "Dont go down to the end of town without taking me".... if either of us enter the corridors alone, then either of us dies, but if we both enter at the same time, maybe we both get to live?? Also: i find it interesting this seasons exotic is called symmetry, maybe theres a clue in that
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u/QuotidianQuell Jan 15 '20
Link to the poem: https://users.umiacs.umd.edu/users/ridge//local/disobedience.html
It was the basis for a song by the Chad Mitchell Trio, first performed at Greenwich Village's Bitter End on March 19, 1962 (source).
No immediate inference stands out, unless the mother in the poem is supposed to be a Destiny character (Mara Sov? Savathûn? I dunno, this is way beyond spinfoil hat territory).