distinguished species

by Roberto Lavidez

we are

condemned

to go around

with an

inexpressible

inner sadness

we don’t need

to cross

the world

to find the

heart of 

darkness

we play

difficult 

games

in order

to escape

from pain

and anguish

all the

interference

and distraction

aspire

to take part

in convulsions

of love

and hatred

in its lunacies

living

and fighting

under a delusion

for a delusion

swallowed up

in a hideous

cruel and

monstrous lie

only to discover

the roots

of evil

but not

defeat it

we live

in history

a reflection

of malevolence

in the whole

gamut

of theories

invented

by men

what seems

a profusion

of harmonious

thoughts

this coalescing

of passion

and possibility

involves

relinquishing

control

drifting into

a daydream

plummeting

into

bottomless

depths

mitigated by

the glimmers

of ecstasy

we are all

at heart

animals

who fight

when cornered

like maddened

beasts

we are not

even uniquely

effective or

competent

just fixated

on a

compendium

of unusual

weapons

ancient

and modern

lured into

a twilight zone

between the

possible and

the impossible

detonating softly

inside one’s mind

where words

would just

be air

unavailing

as a fragrance

we have

undergone

absurd

metamorphoses

overwhelmed

by a warm

wave

of nostalgia

together with

our frantic

our tunneling

logic

our sorrow

our hopelessness

and aggression

and indecencies

being lost

forever

lowered into

darkness

for eternity

we’d like

to think

that we are

a masterpiece

whose very

poetry

lies

in its being

unfinished

but really

we are just

another

variety

of the

animal

species

bound

to be

extinct

©robertolavidez2013