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.

[trainwreck]

That was really good. Thank you for sharing. Unfortunately, I have no time to write a proper review, so I'll leave it at, "you made me think, and I usually don't need to when I read poetry. thank you."

[Stef Outsiders]

Awesome! We need to hear it, well, I want to hear it! Sing it baby! LOL
Sorry mad moment there..
I can relate to this and as always, superb!!

[Seshat Nidaba]

Very humanitarian yet post-modern, I like it when your writing takes on a persona of social-activism. One of the better pieces on foreign policy and the calamity of history I've read.

[BriAnna Wyble]

this is awesome! it flowed in a really cool way, and it was beautifully put together :)

[Shalini Dinesh (Poet's ..]

the metaphors you use are nice to read, i love that, overall i enjoyed reading this poem....

[Just Brooke]

Oh I love it! you use such descriptive words and yet metaphoric at the same time. this is beauty! It draws the reader in. One of those poems that reading it once is not enough to grasp every particles meaning. Absolutely amazing!

[Chris Smith Welshpoetcs]

In reality beauty is only skin deep, the true beauty is what is inside. Mankind can never understand that life is the beauty we need to nuture but the we are surrounded by the ugliness that strikes from those that try to control our destiny. Excellent poem.

[LittleMadGirl]

When I went to a former KZ i felt the souls of the killed still lingering there, trying to teach us a lesson and I was saddend about how the other kid who were with me wouldn't want to listen to the voices and ignore the mere fact of what had happend there. It made me angry. This poem also did. I feel anger because our society has not learned it lesson and keeps cravin for irrational idols. May it be the perfect Arian or money.

[Richard Williams]

Strong diction in a unique and forthright piece.