You Want Me To Simplify My Life..To Be Poem by RIC BASTASA

to be just
simple and say clearly what i what you to understand
less words perhaps
no signs no picture even
just a glance or a touch or a tap on the shoulder

to be direct, candid, straighforward
to tell the truth, this truth and nothing but the truth
no words

how can i tell you? how can i give you the signs
how can i be direct and candid and straightforward
how can i ever tell the truth

when all these years i do not know anymore
about anything

when what i know is only to survive
at all costs

do you think that i still have the truth or the courage to tell you
about it

the truth? do you really need the truth inorder to live?
tell me, why and what?

learn first and teach me how
let us perhaps begin again from the time when we were born
from the time when we first give them our

big cry.