Posterity Poem by Tom Billsborough

Posterity



Each instant with his pious oblivion, without becoming
Memory, dissolves into the fragrance of the void.
Though the world may nail its thousand axes in your mind,
There is within the depth of soul a sphere that does not spin.
Your held beliefs have crumbled, and reflect the same moon
In your every leaf.
Receive the promised port's aroma after a voyage through
A thousand chasms dressed up as whores.
Feel the child burn in your chest, watch it fall into
Millennial ashes,
Suffer the thrust of the wind with your eyes fixed on the sky
And your mind in rags.
Be now the reflection of what you have never been, so that the
Traces of your steps give dancing lessons.
Pockets full of eternal absence, in posterity's flesh sow
Lucid worms.
Let the world slip through your open hands, throw yourself at the precipice turned into an apple.

Sunday, May 7, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: philosophy
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The above is a translation of a poem by Alejandro Jodorowsky by Rod Mendieta and myself. The Spanish Text is below
Posteridad - Poem by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cada instante con su piadoso olvido, sin llegar a ser memoria,
se disuelve en la fragancia del vacío.
Aunque el mundo clave sus mil ejes en tu mente, hay en
el fondo del alma una esfera que no gira.
lo que has creído ser se desmorona, se refleja la misma luna
en cada una de tus hojas.
recibe el aroma del puerto prometido después de un viaje
a través de mil abismos vestidos de ramera,
siente arder al niño encerrado en tu pecho, obsérvalo caer
convertido en cenizas milenarias,
padece las estocadas del viento con los ojos clavados en
el cielo y la mente en andrajos.
de lo que nunca has sido sé ahora el reflejo, que las huellas
de tus pasos den lecciones de danza,
los bolsillos llenos de una eterna ausencia, en la carne de
la posteridad siembra gusanos lucidos,
deja deslizarse el mundo por tus manos abiertas, lánzate
al precipicio convertido en manzana.
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Tom Billsborough

Tom Billsborough

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