Revitalizing Your Life Poem by RIC BASTASA

there is nothing
too serious about this
game of

adding life to
some tired
cells by way of

simply smiling at the mirror
seeing a face that you really own and

then affirming what you are and
will always be

or

trying to change the color of your hair
or

cutting your fingernails
to make you

feel clean
and perhaps whole again

like a noun
connecting to the nearest verb

to tell
another chapter of your
story

that perhaps may
interest

those who are
shedding off days like

dirt on their
skin