A Warm Welcome Poem by RIC BASTASA

tonight when the world is asleep
someone knocks at your door
and you open it. You tell him

'welcome, i have been expecting you...
i am sorry, i have neglected you..
for so long...come, and make yourself
comfortable. Sit here beside me
Let us have a drink, and some smoke
and let us, for once eat together...'

you look at the face of that stranger
slowly and carefully you map out the
the similarities, disregarding the old
differences...

deep inside you, you like this stranger..
It is you. It is now. You have accepted

Yourself. You are drinking with its truths.
You are eating its realities.You have

finally become one with Yourself, and
tonight, it is time to party.