changing reality

by Roberto Lavidez

surgery

on the malleability

of human societies

strike

at the very root

of social system

waves of exiles

from oppressive regimes

chattering in an

incomprehensible tongue

subjects

of rehabilitative measures

largely cut off by

damaged thought

potential

for collective insanity

wailing saxes

and shifting

township rhythms

seeking to accommodate

a changing reality

devastation

of colonialist war

staggering

carnage of rebellions

interaction

of myriads of variables

miserable conditions

prevailing

a diabolical space

resting in the belly

of the capitalist beast

alleged source

of contagion

that could infest

entire universe

without any

apparent cause

or reason

gray smoke drifting

across a desolate

gray landscape

over an apartheid

banana republic

which had lain for decades

on a wooden board

balanced on some empty

oil drums

old civil war  

would break out

in a child’s brain

confronting

an armoured car

with only a rock

in his hand

god’s wrath

had yet to descend

pamphlets and literature

kept pouring

advancing the aims

of demagogue’s

drunken offspring

a psychic trauma

bequeathed to

subsequent generations

children

clinging desperately

to arms

and legs

of archaic sovereignty

something

of an unknown

something

of a question mark

bonded to work

on a new policy

of inhumanity

©robertolavidez2012