Your Simple Dream Poem by RIC BASTASA

you have traveled far
and studied in different
universities and these
did not really make you
happy,

your dream is so simple
as having to caress
a shoulder
brown and wide
enough to fill
your emptiness,

and tonight you fulfill
said dream
your palms land
on the patch of your
simplest dream
to love and
simply be loved in return

and your eyes look
with such a lovely blink
like a dim light
of the bulb teasing
the walls and the ceiling
and the window
and doors now all
shut because of you

they must die in
envy with you

and you let love
swim in your swamps
fly in your clouds
and walk on your
mountains

you let all the birds
sing and the earthworms
burrow

there is no patch in
you that is lacking
each is full and filled
with scent and color
and texture