Goodness And Evil Poem by Alexandro Johns

Goodness and evil they were in me;
I was able to imitate the holiness of elephants,
the good sense of cats
and the candid joy of a dolphin,
when I was an animal of virtues
forgetting my human condition.

The sea was beaching mermaids for me,
the green fingers of leaves
were sliding by my chest,
and the adventures flew between my feet,
but I never opened my way from the midst of crowd.
I agreed the horrors of rational nightmares,
they did counterpoint with my first innocence,
making me a slave according to the whirlwind
of different eras under the same sun.

Therefore, I must confess that I imagined
the Jesus' face in the smoke of bonfires
which I lit for the Holy Inquisition,
and that I have worked with equal fervor
for the machinery of Auschwitz.
I also was a soldier in all the wars,
I drunk the blood of my enemies
without knowing that I was getting drunk
with my own death.

The confessions of my residence on earth
are written in the waters of the time,
with the cold of extinguished stars
that still are shining in the deceit of night.