TOO LATE FOR MAN?

• Author: Ospina, William
• Position: Poem

It is still necessary to investigate what the world has been deprived of to date--what has been silenced by the sackings of greed and the uproar of arrogance. It is still necessary to say that the people who died defending themselves have left behind a scream which waits in the throats of the living. Before the lethal cloud which advances over the world--full of knowledge, power, technology, products, advertising, spectacles which immobilize mankind and incomprehensible atomic arsenals--before this lavish and admirable power that denies the sacred and plunders nature and all the profane, we continue to have only one power to oppose, the last sanctuary of hope: the power of the divine, a force waiting in the form of dreams and legends, in friendship and in love, in art and in memory, in perplexity and in gratitude, in the hearts of human beings. That force will never appear in any statistic, and thus doesn't...