Finding The Best And Fitting Metaphor For Suffering... Poem by RIC BASTASA

someday i shall
find the
best and fitting
metaphor for you
and your
grief someday this
metaphor will
lighten what burden
you have

i am sifting through
this
that which explains and
makes all these
ugly versions
beautiful

what mess is there
this metaphor must put
back everything in place
in full
Technicolor
in its HD version

when it comes perhaps
all the sad things could
be easily set aside
well kept inside a cabinet
and silenced

could be
a basket laced with flowers
could be
a rainbow in the sky
and a cliff with running
singing falls.