Reflect Poem by Alejandro Jodorowsky

When speaking to a prisoner do not offer resistance: enter
His cell, becoming a mirror.
Let him be seen in you, because he is never seen,
Refuge in yesterday, always eating the same piece of bread,
Drinking the same drink of water, mistaking scratches for caresses,
ruminating the pleasure of dissatisfaction.
Is he encased, disguised, having fled, hidden among the
Chairs? Does he insult, threaten and kick the air?
You have to be a reflection, an echo, a shadow, look for the loop, introduce yourself like a thief.
Help him to see the walls that enclose him, invite him to
Demolish them, erase from his mind ingrained ideas, give him the desire to live his own life and not the one imposed.

Translated by Tom Billsborough