When We Leave The Comfort And The Ease Poem by RIC BASTASA

The comfort and ease
are what these windows
and doors and beds of
our house

we have all of these
these comfort and ease

but the time has come
to close all these and
move towards mountains

far towards valleys and
hills and cliffs and
ravines where our feet
are tested
where our
minds are tortured by
by our self-imposed
loneliness
by our
self-chosen hardships
to purify what is
decaying
inside us

this is the only path to
holiness
the way to light
to freedom