all a search

by Roberto Lavidez

it’s easy

once you’ve

thought of it

how subtle

arrangements

apparently

innocent but

profoundly

suspicious

seem to

ameliorate

the deepening

crisis involving

human life

or personal

freedom

marching

the rhythm

of the drum

has its own

functioning

its own

knowledge

deciding its

own results

justifying

ruthless acts

suppressing

doubts and

scruples

not afraid of

pulling down

by shedding

blood

the system

incapable of

absorbing

the strains

brings out

its essential

correlations and

spontaneously

rejects the

incompatible

the notion of

an end

to be pursued

for its own sake

a pathological

condition for

which no one

in particular

was responsible

they are the

acts of cunning

endowed with

a power

of diffusion

not so much

of the greater

reason that

enters the habit

of the ceremonial

use of rules

the right

to existence

to survival

to subsistence

from a body

united by

common

sufferings

and common

interests

all that

we seem

able to gather

from history

under the gaze

of a permanent

corpus of

knowledge

comes from

a segmented

frozen space

ensconced in

the embellished

tower of

the castle

of imagination

an absurd

nostalgic

delusion

that gives

meaning

to the

insignificant

in an age

that is

all questioning

all questing

a tendency

towards

too much

exuberance

all yearning

all searching

for nothing

©robertolavidez2014