To the Halocoust victims
and the unresolvable argument between Alesha and Ivan Karamazov
Don't mess with theodicy
in God's creation
We trigger a bullet down the
shooting range isle
and run it through the
heart of the apple
only to eat this fruit
of original sin
for the next day's meal,
while the angels sing Hosanna
for our entertainment
The mute had been plagued
with silence -- not for the sins
he committed -- but to unveil
God's glory
who by miracle of love released him
into the flow of speech
but where was God's love of justice
in the life time of the innocent's silence?
Was it a dusk seeping
through the windows of his office
when he decided to put in the shredder
the happy endings of old fairy tales
while day and night the trains
were carrying children's bows,
violins and dolls to the gates
of Auschwitz
and Ivan Karamazov was returning
his ticket to paradise?
never mind the reversal of times
when the sky spreads
its innocence
above all and for all --
invisible --save Alesha --
as he spreads his body in prayer
for all-- over the earth
which is -- as for now -- constitutes
the gassed rotten corpses
of lost soul
to the innocents of all times --
on what would you kneel now
and can the times be reversed
for you?
18 Январь 2010 г.