For My Beloved... Poem by RIC BASTASA

there's a thorn in my hair
a bone in my throat

there is a lump on my back
there is log in my eye

there is a cloud in my mind
there is a stain in my shirt

there is a snake in my bed
a scorpion in my pocket

there is wolf by my door
a jackal on the stair

there is bat on the wall
a spider on the ceiling

there is this blindness
in my heart
there are blocks in my thoughts

the hands of the clock
are running too slow

there is an eclipse of my sun
there is a rock in my river