exhumed unreadables

by Roberto Lavidez

life is fundamentally

absurd through

the eyes of a

worldly expatriate

led into a thick

morass of vanity

or intimations

of mortality

through a fog

of approximate

translation

omnipresent sun

plays out its

fateful role

emerging from

the desert starving

and dehydrated

exposing a requisite

number of images

suddenly vanish

for no apparent

reason

unreadables

indecently exhumed

filled with the

disgruntled progeny

of defeated peoples

bringing new facts

to an old case that

would have grown

and thrived

in the darkness

turning reason into

a weapon

to decipher the

encrypted messages

embodying the

ineffectual fantastic

wish for justice

and retribution

from a steady

current of moral

concern and

political insight

become slaves

to a vision of

human life

we live in growing

fear that we shall

forget the past

born on a land

without ancestors

and without

memory but

a nightmarish

world of heat

violence and horror

might have been

looking for

a candy store

but finding

dynamite instead

stockpiled

in a match factory

©robertolavidez2013