To Stand Before You And Talk About Being Just And Good Poem by RIC BASTASA

when you let me talk
i fear that i may not stop talking

after all
the topic is about an eternal quest
for what is good
and just

i get inside
an opening and then i start the
walk inside a labyrinth
and i feel like i am
a lost child
looking for an opening
again
sensing that perhaps there is
another light
beyond us

i sailed
and chanced upon an island
of uncertainty
and then i disembark from
there
only to find
that there is nobody there
except myself
talking


it is so strange
i see mountains and the world
is so silent