A State Of Affairs.......................... Poem by RIC BASTASA

at the end you arrive
and what you need is only a
bed to rest

then you change what you need
is only sleep, even without a bed,
a pillow,

even without a house, even without
any place where you can lay your body
to rest

it is the dark unconsciousness which
you needed badly

where you do not think anymore where
everything turns blank or even if you do

not know it, clouds of blue, sounds of
sea breeze, sights of sail boats on the
wide seas, cliffs and silence, but just the
same, on the present state, there are no
more cares, no nothing now, just the fullness
of being empty not even wanting to be full.