Effigies

All perception is basically memory. We guess at the future by an imperfect knowledge of the past.

Our senses fashion effigies

Of a dead past, useless as guides

Where strict finality resides.

Mute phantoms drowned in icy seas.

But halved funereal diptychs show

Reflections of the things to be.

The not yet displayed in symmetry,

A future mirrored long ago.

Reviews

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

We are doomed to relive the past because we constantly use it as frame of reference toward the future in remembrance. It's why we never seem to learn from the error of our ways. We idolize these effigies to the point of our own destruction. A very insightful and thought provoking piece David.