A Place To Go Poem by RIC BASTASA

there must be a place between
life and death

not the purgatory
for it is they say between hell and heaven

there is a place between sadness and happiness
between being famous and being so ordinary

there is this place where you are so safe and unaffected
Aristotle said it:

the middle, that backbone.

be with me there, between life and death,
this floater between heaven and earth, this feather, this leaf

falling without having to reach the bottom of things
this suspension this silence this lovely solitude.