the unknown

by Roberto Lavidez

the fears

and unknowns

of the

everyday world

lapsed into a

moribund state

we would lose

the things

we were

fighting for

we no longer

think that

the impetus

is coming

from our

own minds

the result of

our own

volition

it all seemed

a familiar

rehash

of the mix

of truths

half-truths and

outright lies

related not

to mirth

but to

an intense

and even

painful sense

of the absurd

clever at

calculating

stresses and

cubic content

with mountains

to cross

and the most

incredible

difficulties

to deal with

stirred up

agonies

too deep

to be assuaged

shocked by

the undermining

of the word

engaging in

the nonlinear

embracing

the hypothetical

entertaining

the conjecture

no matter

how strange

or unnecessary

they might seem

we go with the

fall of the moon

freed of our

rather sleazy

sense of

omnipotence

preserve an air

of inscrutable

silence

resisting

our desire

to form

narratives

doing justice

to the implicit

the imponderable

the unknown

©robertolavidez2014