Assurances To A Friend In Need... Poem by RIC BASTASA

i was never sad
but i had all your sadness
at hand

i could have chosen not to be anxious
but i receive all the anxieties you have
as though they are all mine

i will not be lost but i must be with you
into your chosen uncertainty
for how can i let you be
in early death?

i was born strong and i remain to be
for i have learned a lot
from what i had years and years back
when i was left alone
to tend for myself
with what i do not really have

so this is life, so this is my happiness
to take your burden as mine
to forget myself, to join you in your misery
to cry with you,

i am confident. I can take you out from there.
I am wise. I assume the best that i have.

i will follow you to the end of your stupidities.
I will not talk, but as soon as we reach there,
i will have my hands ready.

I know my way back home. And i shall lead you there.