Unilateral Blurriness
Lina Ru
Unilateral Blurriness
What I call evil,
is not a something
but a withdrawal,
destruction without
reconstruction,
a lack, withdrawal,
empathy renounced,
consciousness unlit,
bleak imagination,
inattention stuck,
bleary transcendence,
fabrications lost
in the translation
of most convenient.
Evil instigates.
If moths eat bulbs,
unprotected cubs
stranded in unlit
streets can't face
what I call evil.
Shadows engulf
an abstraction
until our enemy
becomes yourself.
If emptiness grows
apathy, eternally
recur 'till empathy
returns our every
breath into clarity.
If emptiness degrades
the truth and shallows
our thinking, renounce
the void: choose Amor fati!
until there's no fate
but to transparent love
what is despite fears.
Shadows submit
your will into
a lack, it traps
you, by craving,
it sucks you into
an unilateral blur
as desires attempt
to fill your void.
If you follow an idea,
fall prey to that ideal,
you'll grieve the lack:
imprisoned in shadows
a face blurs, ignores
and conceals
the fullest:
an augmentation
of our creative
nectar, though
briskly yanked
from the melting pot
that feeds narcissus
into our lifelines
to teach us there is
an inclination
no longer confined
to an unilateral
blurriness, nor
deafened by a void
eager to expand
through preying itself
after it got lost in
expansiveness.
Ignore the existence
of the void and your
lacks will empty dry
reserves of beauty.
Embrace what voids,
choose the evidence,
even when knowledge
pains as sudden light
hurts the eyes 'cause
moths ate our bulbs.
Illuminate mirrors
that reflect cares
until our face frees
itself from shadows.
If after all efforts,
we fail, keep sailing,
there's no gold rush
but truth to embrace.
Drops create oceans as
patience reaps veiled
blossoms. Resolve voids
by sharing multilateral
visions that equate joy
to wisdom, forgiveness,
care, illuminated acts
that sweep the shadow
of faces we could love.
