incoherent fables

by Roberto Lavidez

notions purely

transcendent 

and lacking 

explicable

connections 

have diminished

circumstances of

benevolence

everyone pursues

his own way

unsettling as to

disrupt the contours

of new identity

the conquest of

the earth has

arrived

from the sea

of undifferentiated

attributes of an

unarticulated 

situation

we hear whispers

walking in 

nocturnal

processions 

toward

the flames

inexorable

and inescapable

ponderous 

accumulation of

incoherent fables

distorts  

the agonal

courage

that presumes

a righteous anger

and a just use

of strength

obliterating all

enigmatic alterity

suppressing the

dimension of

the unconscious

that deals with

something

so sensitive

something

so sober

so austere as

an ancient prayer

steeling others

from becoming

emotionally 

involved

as survivors tell

stories of terror

brutality 

and illness

of filth

exhaustion and

starvation

time capsules

offer slices

of history

showing people

to hold back on

telling the truth

so as not to

upset others

and dwell instead

only in the

trivialities of life

nourishing 

stubborn

superstitions

refusing 

to shake

the pillars of

ancestral belief

to protect the

conspiracy of

silence

as one takes

the place

of a god who

has no regard

at all 

at the

profound 

disorders

of the soul

©robertolavidez2013