Images In Silence

This poem, Images In Silence, is a visual experience that conveys different meanings at different levels. Imagery as a device had served T.S. Eliot, John Milton and Edgar Allan Poe in good stead, and is one of the secrets of timeless literature. I wrote this poem in 1998, as a sort of visceral interpretation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, but it can also apply to the whole of humanity.

Images In Silence

By Jonathan Aquino

He is a hero

and he, in the end,

will triumph

like the brave princes

of youth’s folklore;

but now, demons,

once again, dance,

in gruesome parody

of noble shamans

from hidden tribes

far, far away;

his blood flows

but his wounds shall,

in time, close;

his nights are filled

by the howls of ghouls

lurking in the sanctum

of the Abyss, but,

Victory shall come;

for even the twilight

promises the dawn

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