How Unfathomable Still Life Really Is...... Poem by RIC BASTASA

in this single life
realizations are myriad

that this is just
a passage
in a dark tunnel towards
the exit where light
waits like
mother

that everything here
is temporary
in fact just hints as
to what is real
not really fakes but
marks to guide us where
we are really going

along the way you meet
someone
which you must never forget
that like you
this someone too dies

hence once you kiss
once you close your eyes
do not think of
eternity
think about that moment
only
which as you once felt
never really lasts

oh, there are those
that speak to you without
using words

a leaf blown by the wind
eagle migrating to another land
a river winding its way
along high mountains
nests that mother birds left
oceans that make you think
how unfathomable still life
really is.