Can or Is?
Can a man be a saint when he kills?
Is the assassin always the sinner?
Can a tyrant be a God?
Can sanity be a fiend that feels?
Is the first always the winner?
Can a gathering be a mob?
Can absolute truth be a lie?
Is the light the versus of dark?
Can agreement be contradiction?
Can an answer be a why?
Is destiny the chosen path?
Can stupidity be wisdom?
Can Man be a pure child?
Is intelligence reason?
Can the lines of time bend?
Can innocence become wild?
Is eternity just a season?
Can the beginning be the end?
Can pain be inner delight?
Is the cry welcome?
Can the living be the dying?
Can mortality be eternal night?
Is the doubt the unknown certain?
Can everything be nothing?
“Can or Is?”
António Eryx Santos
23:40/15-11-1995
Funchal – Ilha da Madeira