What It Is Really? Poem by RIC BASTASA

What It Is Really?

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somewhere our words take us
beyond

somehow we write because we
must rise

some build ships
some of us have to create an ocean to make these ships sail

some of us must know each feather to make us wings
some of us must assure that we too can fly

for we are part of this lonely planet looking for a cure
of humanity's universal sickness

this emptiness that no one feels
if i must, if need be, we too have to create God to create us

it is said He created us in His own image
and we who are lonely and fearful must accept and simply believe

we pay nothing for this
we only have an imagination

some of us has to settle in that bottom of faith
some floors must hold us as we float in space and need to land

we create floors we recreate the meaning of floating and settling
we are tired and what we need most is this peace

the calmness of everything is our dream
somewhere somehow we are and so we keep on writing

some of us has to imagine that we are at rest
some mock us because we seem to be always in motion

eternity, infinity, this somehow this somewhere
always taking us away from us

somehow somewhere we think we understand
we grope we feel and yet we are unable to hold any

and so we keep on saying and saying and saying
but what it is really? what it is really?

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RIC BASTASA

RIC BASTASA

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