Sacred Mental Illness

Let all live! Live and alive, live

The nervous, hot, strong songs

Of dreamy fanatical virtues, subjectivity

 

The elusive loves, the vain whirlpool fears

The puppet jump and clown pierced

A crimson reminder of who we have been

 

Lessons of our youth, tender marks

Primitive essences spilled, like efforts delayed

Let all live! In luminous undying thirst

 

Passions that pass and sing before Death's occult door

Macabre pirouettes to your health

The poetic illness of your mental spheres

 

Lucid guffaws and needy atrocities

Don't judge yourself too harshly dear

Let yourself go, open, in bleeding rivers

 

I want you on good friday, amazed

With monstrous vices, hopeless romanticism

An acrobat of love in pain, in freedom's ballet

 

Safe in failure, with ferocious blindness

The pure unforeseen gangrenes of fate

Howling at the fabulous space between us

 

Of your blood-purple shadows, waving infinity

In inches of mortal sins, special shame.