While I May Be Too Busy With The Letters Of The Law Poem by RIC BASTASA

i received your letter asking
how am i doing
you prefer the paper with scent
not the emails
you find them too impersonal,

i am fine. I am bound with the
rigors of the law. I am stronger now.
I am focused to what is right
and rigid.

thank you.

But while i may be too busy
with the letter of the law
and its spirit,

i sneak sometimes
on the little window beside
me

it looks out
to the sea, to the seagulls,
to the boats, to the port, to the sands,
to the seacaps, to the wind, to an endless horizon beyond me.

i like the way things are going.
Embracing the duality of existence. Power and Pity.
Law and Compassion. Might and Mercy. Pride and Prayer.
Dignity and Humility.

Sky and Earth. Wind and Sand. Bird and Grain.