A Stubborn Life

By Roberto Lavidez

language full

of ambiguities

reasoning out of

bewildering

metaphysics

while the rest

of the world

is mired in illiteracy

manipulation of

mass emotions

gnashing their teeth

over their misfortune

the object of maliciously

indulgent humor

living out lives

untouched by new ways

senselessly sacrificing

the inescapable

photograph of

a stubborn life

everything that

embodies

the allurement

of nature

is gained at the price

of abasement

replete with gentle

anesthetics that

soothe the pain

of enslaved hearts

turned into callow

participants in a

nation’s decline

built-in self destruct

mechanisms begin

to wriggle across

the planetary face

any intrusion

triggers a riot

packing prisons

and cemeteries

after breakdown

of all resistance

the uncorrupted few

must create little cells

of wisdom given the

righteous cause of men

planted in the woods

of wandering solitude

unraveling the

obscurities of liberty,

equality, fraternity

sacrificing the

stereotyped

appropriation

of everything 

the inescapable beauty

of a pendulum swing

©robertolavidez2012