the strangeness
of certain facts
by Roberto
Lavidez
there is
no need
to play
politics
or to seek
riches and
renown
who knows
perhaps
life is really
death
the demand
to change
consciousness
amounts to
a demand
to interpret
reality in a
different way
it is not
sufficient
to love truth
by no means
merely
a problem
of knowledge
but a real
problem
of life
the strangeness
of certain facts
could be
followed
immediately
by a figure
of fiction
what appears
as a means
becomes
an end
in acquiring
a new need
perhaps
there is a
sense and
intelligence
in it
but at the
same time
also a flicker
of madness
or it could be
the other way
around
like the west
mixing with
the east in
a thought
complex
that defies
definition
the conclusion
to be drawn
from all this
appears to be
the guilt and
innocence
and hence
right and
wrong are
existentially
ambiguous
in spite of
all the
torturous
inner struggle
all estrangement
of the human
essence is
therefore
nothing but
estrangement of
self-consciousness
steering between
the opposite
extremes of
timidity and
rashness
becoming
moments of
motion as
man’s state
of existence
and being
which have
no validity
in isolation
but dissolve
and engender
one another
intrusions from
other worlds
whose entirety
remains unknown
and whose logic
escapes us
presents a
history
independently
of the
existence of
any political
or religious
nonsense
which would
especially hold
men together
a medley
of languages
and an
individual
discord
of voices
would be
accompanied
by a profound
spiritual unrest
lusting for the
heavenly
beauty of
a goddess
out of
mawkish
sense of
repentance
for how
can one have
a good
conscience
if he was not
conscious of
anything
man must war
with themselves
with their
weaknesses
and their sins
if we want
to know what
sort of people
will come
after us
or we could
become the
sacrifices to
a loathsome
and filthy war
who knows
perhaps life
is really death
a real
appropriation
of the human
essence
by and for
man
©robertolavidez2013
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