1: 23 Poem by RIC BASTASA

inside my mind
is the moon with you
i am lighted heart
filled with so much
love, desire like
blood rushing through
my veins: sin and life
pleasure and survival
rose buds and fingers
sky and sun, we are
here now, we shall
take most of what
is left our time is
up. Let me stay
like dew to a blade
of grass.Just this
moment. Let me
be. I was not once
even before. Sin
and life, i must
embrace my own.

then on an early
morning, i shall ask
for another
forgiveness.