Smile.
by Ambon Pereira
Posted to Poetry on 2004-03-16 08:45:00
pull a face, front
a mask, make
your space beyond
the present task
of deliberate consideration
of arbitrary details;
beyond what is immediately understood,
lies that which must be tacitly accepted,
on the principle of being human and
therefore fallible;
we must thrive on the condition
of having been serendipitiously mistaken
in our obstinate belief as to the finality
of damnation.