To Live And Love Some More Poem by RIC BASTASA

we open our eyes
must always
open our eyes for
new surprises

we do not close it
for the twists
and turns of life

everyday is a disclosure
every hour
an unfolding of buds into
flowers

spreading scents
pleasing us with its petals
and bright colors

handing us more of
those memories
nothing is discarded
everything is embraced
and kept
and treasured

but like the petals
subject to time
and the seasons
we arrive at the alleys
of wilting
and drying and
crumpling

we too open our eyes
for all these
familiarizing ourselves
with the cycles
of endings and beginnings

the shalls and musts
perhapses and maybes
and all the other
potentials and
possibilities

ah, life is exciting
who does not like to live and love some more?