after all the havoc

by Roberto Lavidez

men

are dogs

for one

another

affirming

one’s

solidarity

with

the world

at its

worst

after all

the havoc

has been

wreaked

life is

grown

too cheap

set at the

price of

words

the inner

uncertainties

the inner

darkness

into which

man

has fallen

the cold

abyss

poisoned

by solitude

and alienation

from star

to star

from death

to death

matching

the pounding

of blood

with the

violent

pulsation

of the sun

the perennial

moral

predicaments

of human

history

thinking

about

things

beyond the

intelligible

breeding

doubt

branching

upwards

toward

heaven

while

the root

is stuck

in the earth

rendering

hope

obsolete

that we can

perhaps gain

a better

understanding

of our enemy

and of ourselves

but we cannot

possibly fathom 

life beyond 

our present life

that there

does exist

such a thing

as truth

come into

being

in the course

of time

like finding

freedom

in any

meaningful

sense of

the world

like a ripple

on an

unfathomable

enigma

the ironic

contrast

and the

inexplicable

silence

hiding

in the

magnificent

folds of

eloquence

lurking

in the facts

of human

existence

of having

come upon

something

unmistakably

real

wandering

on this earth

restored

to the

despair

of innocence

with careless

contempt

for the

evanescence

of all things

©robertolavidez2013