Reading the call for entries post for this edition of BlockchainPoets Weekly Prompt with the theme Despair (see here), it occurred to me to rescue an old poem of mine, published in a newspaper then, and I think somewhere else, that I wrote from the conjunction of two great works: the novel Despair by Vladimir Nabokov and the film of the same name, based on the novel, directed by German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Here is the poem.

Despair Fassbinder

Your gaze of escaped without flight
(betrayed by that imprecise angle)
would break the night
would tear your face
rondador of roulettes wounds
and bars dilated by a sip of light
and a encounter of mirrors
with dark smells and desperate windows

(All masks look alike       All stories find their hero and its double       The condemnation to the earthly loss germinates in the insomniac gestures       The illusion repeats itself Very well. Cut...!)

Tensed to solitude
a twisted tear
would seek the veins of your enjoyment
carnal fragmentation of a song in scream
or final burst that starts it all
to suspect only the silence

Thank you for reading.