Without Discrimination Poem by Tom Billsborough

Without Discrimination



Do not break promises or lacerate trust.
The cuts to others open furrows in your own flesh.
By lacerating their hopes you destroy the bases
on which the world rests.
The distrust you induce kills love. The child
prisoner in his dreams sticks needles in the desire to be.
he knows not how to separate Time from wound or delirium from Dawn.
He knows not that he is the goldfish announcing
the sublime outbreak of the goal.
If, by advancing, you discredit the steps of others, those
curses leap from your mouth to your soul and corrode it.
Teach your eyes to bless what they see.
You are an indivisible unit inside, the separation is a
mirage that devours.
With an empty chest, stare into the background
to find your star.
Respect the illusions of those who submit to your effluvia, teach them to die sinking in the heights.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The above is a translation of a poem by Alejandro Jodorowski by Rod Mendieta and myself. The Spanish text is quoted below

Sin Discriminar - Poem by Alejandro Jodorowsky
No prometas caídas ni ulceres confianzas.
Los tajos a los otros abren surcos en tu propia carne.
Al lacerar sus esperanzas carcomes las bases sobre las que
se asienta el mundo.
La desconfianza que induces mata el amor. El niño prisionero
en sus sueños clava agujas en el deseo de ser.
No sabe separar el tiempo de la herida ni el delirio de la
aurora.
No sabe que es un pez de oro anunciando el sublime estallido
de la meta.
Si para avanzar desprestigias los pasos ajenos, esas
maldiciones brincan de tu boca a tu alma y la corroen.
Enséñale a tus ojos a bendecir lo que ven.
Estas unido por entero, la separación es un espejismo que
devora.
Con el pecho vacio, clava la mirada en el fondo hasta
encontrar tu estrella.
Respeta las ilusiones de quienes se entregan a tus efluvios,
enséñales a morir hundiéndose en las alturas.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Pamela Sinicrope 05 June 2017

Teach them to die sinking in the heights- that's a line I like. The writing seems very thick, but there are some pearls in there.

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Tom Billsborough 05 June 2017

I agree that it is very dense in parts. It's not my style of writing but it's a challenge! It's somewhat didactic in style. I prefer to work from Images myself.

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