restless eternal

by Roberto Lavidez

the diversity

of things

an appearance

unable to solve

the riddle

of the coincidence

of the opposites

as though

restless passion

were seeking to

express itself

under the breath

of terrible storm

the hidden face

of a beautiful dream

a nightmare

overwhelmed

by flood

or starved

by drought

doubt and despair

reflecting a crisis

the smallest grief

never allowed

to be detached

and forgotten

not through

erudition

but through

experience

an implacable

torrid love

without shadow

without escape

without shelter

existence

against existence

plunged into

strange universe

beyond ridicule

or affectation

the feeling

of adventure

the irreversibility

of time

discovering

many things

which concern

the eternal

against returning

to the state

of arrest and

fixation

of the ancients

to the deliberate

intervention

of malicious men

or demons

the chronic

condition

of the civilized

the cycle

of conquest

extermination

and revenge

hanging on

to the view of

dissonance

necessary to

the harmony

of the whole

©robertolavidez2013