implacable

impression

by Roberto Lavidez

there’s a

conflict in

every human

heart

in the

everyday

sense of the

mind’s eye

implacable

like printed

words

on the

knife-edge

dividing the

ancient world

from the

modern

evolving into

a state of

permanent

and endemic

crisis which

concerns our

innermost and

authentic being

an expression

of experience

by experience

holding trifles

of life in

derision

fascinating

as it was

repulsive

as exhilarating

as it was sad

as tender

as it was cruel

bourne beyond

the hurt and

harm of man

from initial

innocence

and curiosity

through

confusion

feeding the

fear and

misery

of those who

must watch

the nightmarish

hanging of

men from

bare trees

among the

slurred

consonants

and the flat

vowels

of the land

there is no

shortcut

around

this thing

as war goes on

in the distance

receptivity

of the senses

is very much

at stake

we cannot

tolerate

a mere chaos

of impressions

to consider

grievances is

incontrovertible

but the

disruption of

the psyche

and the

backdrop of

a darkening

world

is more

noticeable

as if the puppet

in the midst of

the scene

had gone astray

within itself

uncertainties

squandered

on ignorance

a fact forgotten

as it succumbs

to mind’s

insistence that

it be neither

true nor false

©robertolavidez2014