finger pointing

by Roberto Lavidez

perhaps

people

will do

one thing

when they

are young

and another

thing

when they

grow older

never

to believe

anything

that seemed

obvious

at first glance

indeed

to believe

the opposite

it is the

nature

of man

to long

after things

forbidden

and to desire

what is

denied us

to plunge into

irremediable

ambiguity

reflecting

an ancient

prejudice

of thought

caressing in

imagination

the lovely

mirage of

hope

wavering

between

terror and

hysteria

there is no

easy answer

to the

question

why

but suffering

ennobles

and purifies

as persecution

gives freedom

strength

apparently

suggesting

that

something

drastic

would be

done

to solve

the riddle

explicable

by some facts

lying deeper

than the

phenomena of

consciousness

perhaps it has

something

to do with

Plato’s essence

of eternal reality

underlying

superficial

appearances

which may

carry the soul

from the depths

of the concrete

to the heights

of the abstract

or perhaps

we could

devote

ourselves

to tracing the

actual pathways

that evolution

had followed

reducing

to ashes

the rage

hate and

cruelty

by which

we are

mutilated

with a finger

pointing

to the sky

asking for

justice

pondering

uncomprehendingly

on what

went wrong

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