A Beginning Of All Beginnings Poem by RIC BASTASA

The walls are
suffocating,

so you remove
some planks
to make a window

it becomes your
window to the world
outside you

but what you see
(if you remain
enclosed) is still
yourself out there
and it will not
make any difference

you close your eyes
and open your mind

there is another
window that opens
endlessly towards
all the possibilities

spaces of suspended
beliefs
awakenings of what
you have taken for
granted

you shrink into
a littleness
a baby talk
a mother's hum

you do not know
what a sun is
or a moon

that first feeling of
the wind
that face that you have
ever seen

this sense of awe and
wonder
a beginning of all
beginnings
is here now

looking at you
and then you smile....