Do Not Worry, A Calm Mind Does Not Know How To Drown. Poem by RIC BASTASA

you need not know
as i need not tell
you
that i have tried
all ways to
avoid you

i devised a escape
that door without the
microscopic lens that
may burn me

i am here, alone in
this freedom, from you,
the way i escape too
from myself, shunning
away authenticity.

to keep my calm, i am
drawing a placid lake,
i am here like a lotus
in the middle of it.

do not worry, a calm
mind does not know how
to drown.