the box of 
our thinking

by Roberto Lavidez

it was hard

for survivors

of the

darkest night

of human

history

to judge

the truth

to debate

whether

an answer

to the problem

is theological

or not

feeling

atomized

rootless

disconnected

and confused

the terror is

in the air and

quite palpable

when it begins

to grow

the frightening

truth is that

we have no

idea

we are quite

ignorant

of the cause

of all

these strange

conditions

everything

seemed to

come from

everything

trying to

make sense

of everything

that had

happened

there is

no end

of dead

and rubbish

all together

the fittest

live on

because they

are the fittest

what else

can you do

we cannot

put god in

the box of

our thinking

with such

a blurred and

incomplete

picture

emotions

may prove

to be even

more

formidable

to surmount

once they

boil over

into fighting

waiting to see

what the dawn

would bring

to those

deemed savage

and those

deemed civilized

the relation

between self

and world

and between self

and other selves

could awaken

memories

too difficult

to bear

proud human 
beings could be

transformed into

scavenging animals

lost in the many

colored void

as we look

at the mangled

body of
the victim

we tend 
to forget

that he was

once a person

©robertolavidez2014