When He Is Lost Hecan Be Everything To Anyone Poem by RIC BASTASA

he accepts everything and everyone
anywhere and whatever
when he does not know what to do with his life

he can be in any religion
with any person a lover a friend an enemy
or a stranger
in any place be it in the plains or valleys
or oceans and nooks
he can be a slave or master or
cook or shaman or even a woman
whatever that the other does to him
will always be acceptable

he is the sea that takes everything
the boats that float and arrive at certain ports
and those that sink
and forever forgotten