shrug of silence

by Roberto Lavidez

there is

something

in man

capable of

overcoming

the most

abject miseries

nothing great

has ever been

accomplished

without courage

and lucidity

being able

to foresee

all the

consequences

of an act

placing the

desired result

beyond the

realm of

possibility

it does not

arise in some

intellectual

intuition

or theatrical

deduction or

pretensions of

the operations

of formal

understanding

we refuse

to let ourselves

to be torn

between the

thesis and

antithesis

discouraging

reinvention

of the wheel

as a square

or triangle

but there is

no answer still

to the final

question about

how we reach

absolute

knowledge or

any example

of the

incomprehensible

with all

the errors

contradictions

and hesitations

that such a

confrontation

at the theoretical

level implies

there is just

an unbelieving

shrug of silence

as no one

ever claimed

that life

is easy

reducible

to the

metaphysics

of presence

©robertolavidez2014