Instantaneous Beauty

This is a LYRICAL POEM/LYRICS.

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable."

                              - Primo Levi-

Life's summary is written with graphics -

Need a shower to distract me

from blind images

But water is a tap of dropping noise -

Soap fakes purity -

skin the overrated God

 

Oh memories, I dare you

My brain - a painful relic like Auschwitz-Birkenau

Old-fashioned self-abuser

Consumed by millions of aching thoughts

Primo Levi and me know what a satrap is

Everybody wants instantaneous beauty

 

Tyranny is full of foreign yelling

Demanding respect is for

opulence seekers

Blame DNA for ugliness

Dying in such restricted ignorance -

From ashes to ashes

Snail slime

 

Oh memories, you dare me

My brain - a painful relic like Auschwitz-Birkenau

Old-fashioned reclused

Tempted by millions of aching thoughts

Primo Levi and me know what a satrap is

Everybody wants instantaneous beauty

 

Instantaneous everything

Instantaneous monstrosities

Defining beauty - utopic sense

of contradictories

Destroying everything in a blink

with powerful weakness.

Author's Note

This is a LYRICAL POEM/LYRICS.
That's why there's parts where I 'repeat myself'. They are called 'chorus'. Please do not judge the quality of my piece without asking what you don't understand, just its content. Or not, judge as you wish - I love a free nation. ;)

Reviews

[Patches I'm not so new..]

This is a sobering poem--- no one enjoys being reminded of what went on in the Naizi deathcamps but the world needs continous reminders of this evil and you have done a faboulas job in reminding us. Evil does not sleep but lurks unnoticed in the shadows waiting only for the right moment to spring forth.

[emmajoy]

Might have to read this again and again, so many thoughts and not easily understood - maybe you'll correct me but i see this as being a confirmation that evil can't be washed away, that the past remains however it's talked about, pain is not a portrayal, it is an indelible actuality.

This is one of the most powerful posts I've read on here, but, as said, must return to it

[Rikkevi Rue]

very heady stuff...
an intellectuals read...
a jungian psyche squelch...
a freudian libido twister...
a machiavellian manipulation...
a soulful outreach to the sentiently imbued...

[JanuaryDreamer♥]

Wow(: very interesting. That poem was great! Thanks for sharing that with me :) it was a great read!