Do Not Fear.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

LAST night you panicked
about the tsunami news

that is real
you have seen the video on the news
at BBC

THIS thing does not
shake me
i have trust on the earth
where we live
daily

The earth will always be a big thing
and we are its miniatures
My body is like the earth
and the Earth is my body

Thus when the earth shakes
it is because it is feverish
on a certain infection
its sea must have been polluted
with nuclear waste

Thus when the earth moves its belly
and creates the tsunami
it is because
it is bathing
to cleanse itself
from accumulated dirt
and other extraneous
destructive matters

Or it is only
doing this on a routinized
basis
self-checking and
counter-checking
its Own State of Affairs

The EARTH
has a mind and body of
its own

It heals itself too
Every moment
in Every movement


The Law of Nature
Removes what destroys Itself
It vomits what poisons It
It excludes what pains it
It expels what it does not
Need

That is basic

Everything happens
because it is Good

Last night
You wrap your whole body
with that thick blanket
You hardly had a
good breathing

I know
You never really had that
nice sleep
that I am always enjoying

You bet

Now wake up early
Open the Windows of your House
Witness the unfolding of Light before your very eyes
How nature dresses and undresses itself
INTO such a beauty

Charming and magical
Its poise
The way how light bends and
Walks the isles
and Leaves and Fades
and Comes back again
IN another set of hues
and freshness of its
air
her hairs caressing
all of us
here

The rising sun
the glamorous sea
The white dots of seagulls dotting the sky blue sea
The boats afloat
and the children jumping for their
usual dives and baths

On a little ponderous moment like this
Feel the love that this Earth has given us for free
Daily
Because after it has cleansed itself
It becomes another scented Lady
or Mother or Lover
or Friend

Ready to embrace you Again
To show how lovely you too has become
This
In all Mutuality.