Happy Birthday Ric S. Bastasa Poem by YURI DURAAN

Happy Birthday Ric S. Bastasa

Did your mother know,
when she released you from
the safe ravines of her belly
so many years ago,
that you would grow up and drink
every dropp of life until you drown
in it....?

to be born yet again into this
bored man (by your own confession)
who writes the most beautiful lines?

Are you so bored that the sun, when
it rose today did not touch you in a
way that you had to write about it? –
that the man who greeted you on the
sidewalk did not inspire prose hastily
written on a serviette in a coffee shop? –

You are not bored…
You see too much -
You feel too much –
Your mind possesses the earth
and for that you are blessed.

Happy Birthday Ric S. Bastasa