deciphering 

enigmas

by Roberto Lavidez

dreams

open into

a whole

new region

of fantasy

looking

below

the surface

and reading

between

the lines

relentlessly

demanding

a confrontation

with the

shadow side

of existence

a definite

encounter

with human

mortality

finitude

and fallibility

intrusions

from other

worlds

whose 

entirety

remains

unknown

and whose

logic

escapes us

had begun

a slow but 

irreversible

decline

stirred by

the fleeting

euphoria

of the newly

liberated

after having 

been raped

by nihilism

beyond

the constraints

of fate

and death

deciphering

enigmas

the most

complex

of metaphors

distinguishing

the known

from the

uncertain

brought

down

from the

heights

of poetry

to the valley

of prose

inscribing

itself

at every

moment

in the sky

everything

from the

transcendental

to the

utterly

trivial

trembling

in the

presence

of the

first cloud

that

would be

a clear

prediction

of a

hurricane

following

a path

from peace

to anarchy

from wealth

to poverty

desperate

for a shelter

a balm

that could

calm

the soul

reconcile

minds

and resolve

contradictions

sans the

carnivalesque

promises of

the timeless

over the temporal

the infinite

over the finite

from spontaneous

lies and cold

heartlessness

of tragedians

©robertolavidez2013