When We Grow Poem by RIC BASTASA

When We Grow



when we grow
we actually change

we are like the sprouts of
a bean slowly crawling
wanting to see and
touch the sun,

we pretend not
to notice because
time runs so slowly
like cells unseen by
us but keen and keep on
gaining length and
width like the way
we grow eyelids

and we extend our sights
and smells, we find
love and we embrace
lust and we mix them
like a kind of
a bloody Mary drink,

or scotch on the rocks
and we face walls and
we mumble as we begin
to meet loneliness,
the spaces that spread
like a disease; you and
i, in all these, after a
lovely night in a
tangle of hair and
intertwining of fingers

we face darkness
and walls and we
begin to ask: what for?

we let the rain fall
our roofs leak and our
windows begin to open

we find separate paths
and we argue and then
we decide to take what
we really want:

i long for this and you long
for that; we take separate
ways, and we say goodbye.

we write letters day to day
until such time when the
silence becomes like a boring hour
and the
letters are unread and
we throw them on the river
of time: floating, all the
letters dissolving in the
cold waters of forgetting.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
RIC BASTASA

RIC BASTASA

Philippines
Close
Error Success