immeasurable
by Roberto Lavidez
a man
subsisting
on what
is humanly
bearable
resisting
his own
extermination
is killed by
forgetfulness
aligned with
the forces
of darkness
beneath
the whirl
of appearances
an irreversible
turning point
seems
particularly
blind
a chaos of
menacing
shadows
allow the
immeasurable
evil
to submerge
the world
a condemned
burial site
swarming with
ghosts from
the past
left
in constant
anguish
about their
destiny
unable to grasp
the dignity
that is proper
to man
now dragged
into an unequal
conflict
in the sudden
eruption
of crisis and
callousness
an inevitable
catastrophe
and disorder
spreading like
an infectious
disease
staving off
the outcry
of innocents
in the encounter
of reason
with desolate
landscape
and oblivious
sun and sea
abandoning
the dawn
of great hope
and expectation
turning its back
at the lone
survivor
slowly being
drowned by
the incessant
wave of madness
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strange world
by Roberto Lavidez
running
the risk of
creating
new difficulties
our world
is becoming
very strange
and not exactly
reassuring
cluttered with
non-essentials
blinded by
abortive desires
apocalyptic
moments
of the fog
closes in
all rather
hallucinatory
and somber
disappointing
the hopes of
the unfortunate
who suffer
every imaginable
calamity
nature’s wrath
sputtering with
inarticulate rage
swimming against
the current
even against time
the path of tears
oozing out of
victim’s eye
unable to
protect oneself
against sudden
squalls
resulting in
merely a waste
of life and
other things
of life
and then
as is often
the case
after all the losses
are sustained in
perpetual disasters
trickery
reveals itself
in the end
paying honour
to the immortal gods
responsible for
repetitious vanishings
and reappearances
recollecting the
misdeeds of people
that kept occurring
arousing resentment
at those who
begged for mercy
as if their source
of misery is being
washed away
floating in peace
with all the debris
of the old
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restless eternal
by Roberto Lavidez
the diversity
of things
an appearance
unable to solve
the riddle
of the coincidence
of the opposites
as though
restless passion
were seeking to
express itself
under the breath
of terrible storm
the hidden face
of a beautiful dream
a nightmare
overwhelmed
by flood
or starved
by drought
doubt and despair
reflecting a crisis
the smallest grief
never allowed
to be detached
and forgotten
not through
erudition
but through
experience
an implacable
torrid love
without shadow
without escape
without shelter
existence
against existence
plunged into
strange universe
beyond ridicule
or affectation
the feeling
of adventure
the irreversibility
of time
discovering
many things
which concern
the eternal
against returning
to the state
of arrest and
fixation
of the ancients
to the deliberate
intervention
of malicious men
or demons
the chronic
condition
of the civilized
the cycle
of conquest
extermination
and revenge
hanging on
to the view of
dissonance
necessary to
the harmony
of the whole
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incoherent fables
by
Roberto Lavidez
notions purely
transcendent
and lacking
explicable
connections
have diminished
circumstances of
benevolence
everyone pursues
his own way
unsettling as to
disrupt the contours
of new identity
the conquest of
the earth has
arrived
from the sea
of undifferentiated
attributes of an
unarticulated
situation
we hear whispers
walking in
nocturnal
processions
toward
the flames
inexorable
and inescapable
ponderous
accumulation of
incoherent fables
distorts
the agonal
courage
that presumes
a righteous anger
and a just use
of strength
obliterating all
enigmatic alterity
suppressing the
dimension of
the unconscious
that deals with
something
so sensitive
something
so sober
so austere as
an ancient prayer
steeling others
from becoming
emotionally
involved
as survivors tell
stories of terror
brutality
and illness
of filth
exhaustion and
starvation
time capsules
offer slices
of history
showing people
to hold back on
telling the truth
so as not to
upset others
and dwell instead
only in the
trivialities of life
nourishing
stubborn
superstitions
refusing
to shake
the pillars of
ancestral belief
to protect the
conspiracy of
silence
as one takes
the place
of a god who
has no regard
at all
at the
profound
disorders
of the soul
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uttering the
unexpressed
by
Roberto Lavidez
trying every chance
that offered a hope
for peace
stirred up some
latent doubts
colored by some
long-standing
antipathy
perceived by
a mind blinded
by sudden panic
clinging to its own
dreadful reality
instrumental
in generating
a pathological
outcome
between itself
and the world
of symbolic
experience
every meaning
engaged in a
hermeneutic
exercise
will dissolve
like a cloud
and fall down
like rain with
a boundlessly
growing anguish
uttering prophesies
with frenzied
bodily convulsions
by bringing war
to an end
with countless
death that the
world would
soon forget
echoing the
equally chaotic
inner world
swinging the
indifferent motion
of a pendulum
refusing to relinquish
delusions and
hallucinations
precipitated by
unexpressed sorrows
at the voiceless
pit of conflict
fearing
to say anything
because everything
is unsayable
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microcosmic hole
by Roberto
Lavidez
man
an independent
cosmos
the individual
molecule
of the universe
turning
mere dreams
and wanton
fantasies
into actualities
his every insight
takes on
the character of
a lethal weapon
undermining
theology and
philosophy
the very superfluity
has been an incentive
to his questing mind
he has neglected
to study
the secret forces
and invisible
radiations
ready to forgo
love and
to sacrifice life
all his earthly
existence
contained
in a book
confounded by
incorrigible events
by nagging constraints
of poverty and
backwardness
having become
an observer
he consciously expands
the permissible range
of transformation
that which causes
a tree to rot
also will cause
a man to rot
he dares
to tell this
naked truth
to a king
a possessed person
who could only
be cured
by perforating
his skull
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A World In Flux
By Roberto Lavidez
opposites perpetually
changing
taking advantage
of any glimmer
any spark
to gain ground
in uncertain path
indeterminate and
amorphous
though a continuum
a certain mutual
hardening and
distancing of hearts
arriving too early at
objective tolerance
and recognition
of schisms
organizing the
despotism of liberty
a recurring theme
in an era borne out
of a morass of war
plague and disease
all these calamities
could not be fixed
even by an archangel
the complex poetics
conceived by
avant-garde saints
unleashing the darker
traits of the soul
remaking the product
of the labyrinth
human consciousness
its meanings
infinitely mirrored
infinitely reflected
in each other
entering into
the liturgies
maximizing
the result of being
an embodied mind
hoping to change
a world of inequalities
and discrimination
when a flow enters
into another flow
it pushes us violently
two thousand years
backward in the
history of the world
despite cooperation
collaboration for
the sake of the
common good
one should always
know one’s enemy
but the fate of
being human is
that names
are called over
the heads fall
pouf, pouf, pouf
ignoring any loss
of prestige
after everything
is done
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