of rocks and bones

by Roberto Lavidez

looking

at history

at the narrative

of rocks

and bones

all of us are

vanquished

victims

of the ravaging

great swath

of earth

strewed about

in a haphazard

mess

amid a spasm

of communal

bloodletting

the monster

is far from

tamed

in a landscape

disappearing

under concrete

thunder rumbled

and rain drops

drilled the earth

the further one

probed into the

human evolutionary

path

must of necessity

build on the ruins

seeking an inner

sanctum within

a wilderness

but once it was gone

it could'nt be

imagined anymore

as if wandering

through a museum

stripped of its

artifacts

a telling sign

of a restive nation

with the expected

consequences of living

©robertolavidez2013