the last refuge

by Roberto Lavidez

unending

monotonous strife

between existence

and essence

always haunted by 

the consciousness

of sin where desire 

and indolence

struggled against

each other

exasperated

beyond endurance

by the outcry

fixed against

the great mute sky

proclaiming 

absurdities

of freedom

involving the whole

of human servitude

painstakingly 

wrested from the 

head-hunting

society and 

its cultural

scar tissue

calculating on the  

invidious practices

and misfortune 

of others

setbacks resulting

from barbarian 

egotism

quietly witnessing

the perpetration

of cruelties

under patterns

of prejudice

and discrimination

of the past

the outbursts

of violence from

the perversion

of concepts

in political 

economy

the overlordship

and the silly

mysticism 

of property

if there ever was

a deep sense

of deliverance

it must be tinged

with melancholy

set against the

terrors of solitude

the ironic contrast

and the inexplicable 

silence

without taking 

advantage

of the calm

without certainty

of sustaining

consciousness

to the very end

an abstraction

comprehending itself

as abstraction

©robertolavidez2013