THE THESIS OF IRONY
THE THESIS OF IRONY
by rado gatchalian
inhale
no more – fix your eyes
to path no one can see
do not bring
the candles – enlightened by tears
of the past
do not murmur
untold tales – conceived
by gods of the earth
go straight
to the door of immortality
and experience
the inexperienced
wonders of life and death
of joy and pain
do not cross the bridge, then,
that gives life to death,
gives joy to pain
the irony creates sin,
mind starts to think: whether
man’s life is man’s own pain!
walk, now, without cane
care not what people say –
believe in yourself: abandon your fear!
suffer no more –
follow the heart that speaks,
listen to voice – inner and deep
now, inhale the breath of life
and see in your eyes the way
where all people aspire to find
a place where tears and laughter,
pain and glory, sex and celibacy,
exist as One
– a place,
which in the first place,
no one can explain
this is the irony unspeakable:
exist and cease
be free and become slave
this is the irony inevitable:
now – you begin
tomorrow – you will end
