ruled by dreams

by Roberto Lavidez

the widespread

sense of

awakening

to a new

consciousness

of freedom

in the face of

overwhelming

apparently

insurmountable

obstacles

and resistance

the capacity

to be open

to things and

let them be

divorced from

an empirically

informed

understanding

of the way

the world

works

where weighty

consequences

are at stake

situations of

life and death

extremes

all that is

titanic

potent and

massive

neither purely

transparent

nor completely

opaque

entering some

strange universe

of the shown

and the hidden

the unconcealed

and the

concealed

retaining

something

that will soon

be gone forever

the infinity of

what there is

to know

where absolutes

dissolved into

a profundity

of significant

pattern

and mysterious

purpose

in the depths

of all things

ruled by

the dreams

of despotism

a pervasive sense

of futility

of the human

condition

before the

incomprehensibility

of grave drama

an incineration

celebrates

perhaps

the nothing

of the all

that which

covers

the light

is destroyed

its destruction

without return

©robertolavidez2014