Fully Alive... Poem by RIC BASTASA

how did you
live fully? did you
not know
that you have
to die first before
you can live
that full?
and how did you
die first?
did you know that
all these are
but idioms?
it is death
without being seen
with any blood
or strangulation
you appear
there in that
garden without
any wound
and yet you have
died
as you claim it
to be

internally

did you know that
all these
are but a harem of
metaphors?

you do have to
live fully after all
neither shall you
die because
you cannot and you
are not death
neither are you
life.

all these are
figures of speech.

there is a path
that you know
but you do not
speak about it.

you just walk on it
and do what you
tell yourself within.

automatically.