The Amalgam of Pain

I am concerned with the structures that sustain the universe, 
with the mighty river of time, 
the tablature and the compass of souls 
dispersed in their endless penances, 
the enigmatic smile of doubts 
overlapping the fragility of certainties, 
the detestable silences that precede painful decisions 
and with the thick amalgam of pain 
that poisons our days with the most varied enigmas.

What worries me is the shock 
when I wake up from the nightmare of living, 
the need for millimeter precision 
in counting the steps until the freedom of not thinking, 
the innumerable precipices 
that surround any and all will of the mind 
to keep away from the fainting, falls and stumbles.

What I am concerned about 
is the indifference of entities or deities 
that could undo the deception of atoms 
in condemning us to finitude, 
constantly and habitually 
expressing unmistakable signs of contempt 
for creatures who have given them a supposed superiority 
over their own destinies. 
my concern is about the extension of the shadow
that negatively illuminates the path 
we should follow under the light.
the rest don't worry me.

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Date: 5/28/2022 1:03:00 PM
The last line gave me a chuckle, Marco. The "rest," I say, are a-plenty! There is a certain, unmistakable fatalism in this poem, intended or unintended. I love the idea of "waking up from the nightmare of living." I'd love to sit down with you and have you go through this poem line by line with me. I'm sure I'm missing so much.
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Marco Chies
Date: 5/28/2022 2:26:00 PM
originally this poem had three blocks of intimate words, talking about existential concerns, in the end I ended up with an almost frugal, simplistic sentence: the rest don't worry me (and the rest is EVERYTHING, lol)
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