"Hung, beaten by life." It speaks of the abandonment suffered by the elderly at the end of their days. In this particular case, it refers to the old man who continues to wander the streets waiting for death, alone and abandoned. Suspended in an undeserved time and space because surely, when he was young, he struggled with everything to survive, but old age diminishes, ends with force and leaves only that taste of bitterness, of moral blows and surrender.
As always, I am an admirer of his poetry that depicts humanity carelessly neglected, as a way of calling attention to things that we could improve.
"Hung, beaten by life." It speaks of the abandonment suffered by the elderly at the end of their days. In this particular case, it refers to the old man who continues to wander the streets waiting for death, alone and abandoned. Suspended in an undeserved time and space because surely, when he was young, he struggled with everything to survive, but old age diminishes, ends with force and leaves only that taste of bitterness, of moral blows and surrender.
As always, I am an admirer of his poetry that depicts humanity carelessly neglected, as a way of calling attention to things that we could improve.
One feels much for this old man:)
How many people pass a man like the one in your poem, but do not SEE him? A powerful and empathetic write.