Belladonna appears to be a character who, though has beautiful eyes of blue only sees the world in grey. She sheds tears for years - because she is a slave? Ultimately she chooses death. The speaker of this piece remembers her great beauty. Perhaps like Belladonna the drug she can "wash the day away" by making time meaningless with her hallucinatory effects. The speaker could be referring to a dawn they spent together, or a "dawn" as in a shared realisation.
Belladonna appears to be a character who, though has beautiful eyes of blue only sees the world in grey. She sheds tears for years - because she is a slave? Ultimately she chooses death. The speaker of this piece remembers her great beauty. Perhaps like Belladonna the drug she can "wash the day away" by making time meaningless with her hallucinatory effects. The speaker could be referring to a dawn they spent together, or a "dawn" as in a shared realisation.