The Shape of the Other1
                                 Rafael PEÑALOZA
                        Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
                              rafael.penaloza@unibz.it


         Keywords. shapes, people, others




  The other, that unknown being
  that trace, that shadow, that profile;
  that figure without a face

  Fleetingly, we observe it as familiar
  it is then gone, back to its aphotic cave

  The other, the anonymous creature
  the insulted, the praised, the easily ignored

  There is the other
  and there! and there! and there and there!
  Every one is an other one for another one

  So get out of your darkness,
  shine your heat into me
  let me see you respire your lucid semblance
  mold into my own

  We are all the other
  ephemeral order against our lurid sky
  Pick me up, let’s mix, and go back to our obfuscous life

  I am no Lucifer, I’m just the other
  unknown, faceless, ignored, burned
  and somehow, with my own shape




1 https://youtu.be/ZPVOsZSwnHU