WALL SWITCH

WALL SWITCH

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

Like a wall switch

we turned on the existence of our being.

Since birth we have seen the light

as an incandescent life

glowing in a phosphorus dimension

surrounded by the puzzling

and the mythological realities.

We are turnkey

when we begin to walk and absorb

shaking in the chastisement

trying to understand the conflict.

Knowing that men kill men

and the thirst for power is greater

than internalizing love

how does God exist in mankind?

When the switch engages

some will benefit from a consciousness

while others decay

slaughtering their benefactors.

When we enter onto this Globe

we are drawn by the energies light

as soap to the unwashed skin

knowing physical forgiveness is good

and appeasing our bodies

is the sacrosanct order of our design.

Can lucid mankind

comprehend the off cycle

where Gods cease and desist is eminent?

Could we jumpstart death

in the sheer imagination of its complexities?

We play on these divine grounds

no longer cognitive of our expiration dates, yet

will slaughter those with exuberance.

If the switch is turned off tomorrow

the neo-tragic wealth of the being will postulate

in the minds of those who understood

that the Glory

of possessions is greater than any God

Shall we all run for the breadcrumbs

said the old woman sitting on the park bench.

Did she understand the ‘switch’?