Don quixote



Since the urge came over me
 I would like to show a film.

 I will take the part of the world
 and have the world
 play the part of me.

 But until the world
 learns to play the role of Don Quixote
 I will have at my disposal sufficient time...
 for practically a second human History
 during which...
 the involvement with Glory will surpass
 the seriousness of the extension of empires.

 And all that of course without the horses
 and consequently...
 without the exasperation
 that the largest part of Glory
 the World would come to appreciate on horseback.

 The World has taken them
 so they can play the role of Don Quixote together
 and I see them in the enclosed mountains of La Mancha
 the poor horses being beaten
 who having the experience
 of Don Quixote riding on their backs
 provided a sufficient reason
 for the naive souls of the Middle Ages to hope
 that finally they had found the reason and the technique
 of the Ancient Legends
 for making their way to Troy.

 And subsequently
 I cannot fall quite so low
 as to play the role of the World.

 It`s just I`m in a rush with this opportunity I`ve been given
 by this position far
 from the preparations for the tempests of that period
 whereby I might be a true Don Quixote
 who levels a heavy charge
 against the Spanish Monarchy
 for its impersonal compact with all the World
 influenced by Fantasy
 immediately after the notification
 of my own plans
 for the creation of a second Human History.

 But that one like all the others
 proved to be a phantom
 which the Spanish might have shared with the World
 if only their souls
 would have been weighted down by the Line
 "those hopeless returns to La Mancha.”

 But they have never returned
 because no one is waiting for them
 and the greatest scandal is that
 no one ever had the hope
 there might be somewhere to go
 from Spain and the World.

 And this seems so bitter and tragic to me
 that my reason consumed by so many tasks
 will now occupy itself
 with the crude similarity between the Eras...
 because they blame me for any chance ambiguity
 in the philosophical essence of History
 and that this has occurred because I
 have made off with the authenticity of the Eras.

 Well for your information
 the exact opposite is what actually happened.

 The Eras themselves were like lighted candles
 at the terminus of murky imperial Fate
 during that time when along with the last recollections
 they were deprived of reason
 and they waited on a wind to keep them in life.

 Just as it should have, it happened
 and the Winds came to abandon that world
 but I who was a bit more than merely a World
 never took care to be a Wind.

 I merely found myself opposite them like a storm
 threatening the Idols
 of their egocentric feelings
 which fled with the cynical dexterity of Abel
 from the debased terrain of the Earth
 the moment when Humankind
 entered without even itself knowing it
 the dogmatic Paintings of the White Saints.

 I have never been face to face
 with all those strange figures
 which provoke such displeasure in me
 but if I should come face to face
 I have the despairing impression
 that holding out the Cross to thwart an assault
 by the supposedly Satanic Don Quixote
 in order not to defy the sentiments of the World
 that I so loved...
 that they will then force me to decisively withdraw
 which would always be the end of tragedy
 in agreement with the naive World.

 While I would say
 despite the fact I am certain that
 that no one will hear me
 that this is the Beginning of Tragedy.

 Later comes the colonisation of the Divine Dialectic
 which will choke the sensibility of the Earth in corruption
 for those people who continue to be mortal
 and despite the fact I gave La Mancha the right
 to govern things in the Abyss
 in what concerns this despair
 of...non resurrection.

 But this pitiless tragicalness
 will not prevent this deluded world
 from constantly praising the Saints.

 And indeed I could say that
 despite the fact this Quixotian madness
 remains the only manifesto
 concerning human insurrections
 the fact that this manifesto has been discredited
 makes me say that
 it is the Era of Saints.

 And now immersed in this full Mediterranean moon
 where from all points something
 is blowing which reminds me that although
 I have fallen into the grip of deep age
 reckoning on the writing of my memories

 I feel like crying without even wanting myself
 to surrender to Christian Charity
 and I will not be able to be prodigal
 in the use of Sarcasm
 so I can let it be understood
 that my work will be excoriated
 especially when it is judged
 by the naive people of Spain and the World.
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 4,523
Words 822
Stanzas 21
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 7, 5, 11, 3, 11, 6, 6, 8, 2, 5, 4, 8, 12, 4, 7, 3, 7, 5, 8

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