The Village Glitters.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

you go blank
and face your life
and you have nothing
to say actually
on the wall but
there no end
which is tragic
on this
blankness of
honesty
for life is there
at you succor
with a life of
its own
and there it meets
you as though
you are its long
lost brother.

for it truth
even if you surrender
life is there
who shall be your
only defender.

stare at this
blankness
and find a village
on such a dark
night
which starts to flicker
like a firefly
and when each window
is lit
the village
glitters....