Purification Poem by RIC BASTASA

high fever
your eyes losing sight
of some images
crisscrossing your
mind

you speak names
they hear
you mumble some
facts
they understand

you don't
you are on fire
you are burning
with so much heat
your hair
smells of burnt ashes
you are charred
almost to death

that is how the
feeling goes
on this purification

you wake up
the following morning
naked
and pure and very simple
you face
the window
and greets
some birds
singing on the
window sill

your eyes meet
and they chirp
seeing
the new you

you stretch
your arms
and close your eyes
this is the beginning
of your
happy moment