To Begin to Build the World that We Have Dreamed

1.

Would that in an instance

We go through



A freeform meltdown



And the universe

Will begin to speak

The language of love

And that Fallouja

And Darfur will come around

To fighting

To end all kinds of wars?



But then again,



This freeform meltdown



Will delay the democratic discourse

Will not make us see the world

As it should be

This world beyond

Our own image



This world transcending

The phantoms of our chimera,

The ones we made for our own image

To claim history



The ones we created

To reclaim creation

To reclaim the power to renew the face

Of the earth, police the morals

Of the immoral universe

Unlike our own, in our own image

To renew



The power to declare



A freeform meltdown



Like the way we command the seas

To part, the rivers to become just

Stones so that the war machine could



Roll

On

&

Roar

On

Roll on and Roar on



Or the power to still the skies

To aim the target all right,

One target at a time and quick

One target at a time ad random

One target at a time to end the fighting

Dissension

Despair

Dread

Devotion to a cause other than our own



In a freeform meltdown



To erase all recollections and stories

Except our own

To close all the books

Except our own &

Speak the language of love

Speak the language of the heart

Speak the language of the soul

Speak the language of the mind

Speak the language of mind

Speak the language of man

Speak the language of peoples

Except

Except

Except our own.



Would that

We come to



a



freeform



meltdown





And our wishes will

Be

Fullfilled

Become

The Final Testament

To a duty done

With or without man

With or without love

With or without the dream

To renew man again and again

To renew woman again and again

To renew man-woman-man/woman-man-woman again

And again and again?



2.

Would that

In

An instance

We go through a freeform meltdown

And the world is many

And the world is one

And the world is many in the one

And the world is one in the many?





Aurelio S. Agcaoili

Nov. 25, 2004

Thanksgiving Day 2004







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