Watching Everything Go And Leave Poem by RIC BASTASA

I let my emails accumulate like
Paper stacks
Unread. I just let them be themselves.
I let the hours pass away.
No questions asked. I let people go by
No reminders.
I let the roads take their curves and
Take their own travels.

I let things grow by themselves.
Above the sky expands.
Like a notebook, like a canvass.
I let the night come.
And be the mouth
To eat the stars out.
I let everyone arrive, and one by one
I let everyone go.

I let the wave come ashore and
Curl upon themselves and then
Disappear.

This is the season for just being myself.
They watch me and I watch them.
I take my deepest breath.
They let me go, I let them too.

This is not the time for reasoning.
This is just the time for simply watching.
This is the
Phenomenon.