#poem, «Dialogue No. 3: The Sea»

Dialogue No. 3, “The Sea”

-I’ve seen a man walk on the water and a fish survive on dry land…
-Perhaps you’ve seen too much…
-Can one see too much?
-One can drown in one’s own eyes my friend…

-I’ve seen tears turn to stone and bodies turn to salt…
-You’ve seen such things?
-Yes, and more…

-I saw Prophets queuing on the unemployment line and angels sleeping on cots in tenements…
-Sometimes it’s not what we see but what we’re shown…

-I’ve never been shown anything my friend, I seek and I find…
-Maybe you are just looking in the wrong places?

-The right places are all occupied…
-Yes, but do they belong there?

-Men love freedom, power, wealth, to be important, to be known and to know…
-Vanity. It’s all existentialism, which stimulates the boring life of the intellectual class that love to quote famous writers.

-Just pat yourself on the back, right?
-That’s about it…

-And what of the man who walked on water?
-I saw him too catching a bus on 103rd street heading downtown…

-And I saw Lot’s wife shake off the salt and head for the beach…
-And the Prophet?
-Saw him shave his beard, pierce his nose and ears and is now living in New Orleans…

-Will we talk again?
-No…

-What happened to the sea?
-It’s been replaced with concrete…

C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 12 AUG 2024 – Izmir, Turkey

NOTA BENE

Poetically the sea has been used…always…as a metaphor for life. When a life is covered with concrete it means that it is quite dead and quite buried… Just something to think about. You come to your own conclusions reference this dialogue.