You Advise Me Always To Imagine Poem by RIC BASTASA

when i am sad and i walk alone on a road leading to the sea
you advise me always to imagine

i follow it. And i imagine people in the market as trees.
the vendors who keep walking here and there are boats

the road is a big river and i do not wish to cross it for fear of drowning
but you keep on saying that to have courage i must imagine and imagine

so i imagine myself as an eel.long necked, a conger, and vibrant with
my electricity moving and sliding and swimming among the corals and weeds

and so i cross the street and you wave your hand with a thumbs up sign
and you meet me there with a hug and ask me how is it? and i say

oh well, i like it, and without your knowing, i imagine you as a port
with a lighthouse, and then i have to go, since i still have to imagine, a home.